Cabbages and KingsA series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER 1 CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER I. "
The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER 1 CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER I. "
Pagina 9
So , there is a little tale to tell of many things . Perhaps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
So , there is a little tale to tell of many things . Perhaps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
Pagina 13
You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a ...
You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a ...
Pagina 20
Across the treacherous mangrove swamps few things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . ' Kcep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin .
Across the treacherous mangrove swamps few things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . ' Kcep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin .
Pagina 35
Save for the tiny cloud of smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report .
Save for the tiny cloud of smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report .
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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