Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 113
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
Pagina 114
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings - much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury - and summoned before him all those whose testimony might ...
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings - much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury - and summoned before him all those whose testimony might ...
Pagina 116
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
Pagina 117
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
Pagina 118
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those convenient and indisputable feminine headaches . ” " He has come to inquire about the ...
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those convenient and indisputable feminine headaches . ” " He has come to inquire about the ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla