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 260
... Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the fruit ...
... Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the fruit ...
Pagina 263
... would be a rustling of stiffly - starched white trousers as one of the caballeros would propose an adjournment to the bar . That Dicky Maloney would , sooner or later , ex- plore this field was a thing to be foreseen . Dicky 263.
... would be a rustling of stiffly - starched white trousers as one of the caballeros would propose an adjournment to the bar . That Dicky Maloney would , sooner or later , ex- plore this field was a thing to be foreseen . Dicky 263.
Pagina 264
... Maloney " was added to her string of distinguished names . And it was her fate to sit , with her patient , saintly eyes and figure like a bisque Psyche , behind the se- questered counter of the little shop , while Dicky drank and ...
... Maloney " was added to her string of distinguished names . And it was her fate to sit , with her patient , saintly eyes and figure like a bisque Psyche , behind the se- questered counter of the little shop , while Dicky drank and ...
Pagina 266
... Maloney , " or " Señor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own sus- picion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their ...
... Maloney , " or " Señor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own sus- picion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their ...
Pagina 271
... Maloney , " he began , captiously , you fellows seem to think you can cut up any kind of row , and expect me to pull you out of it . I'm neither the War Department nor a gold mine . This country has its laws , you know , and there's one ...
... Maloney , " he began , captiously , you fellows seem to think you can cut up any kind of row , and expect me to pull you out of it . I'm neither the War Department nor a gold mine . This country has its laws , you know , and there's one ...
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