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 6
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
Pagina 33
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she sometimes was ...
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she sometimes was ...
Pagina 45
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
Pagina 95
... Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . “ We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . ' Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses ...
... Orleans . From that celebrated centre of mo- lasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . “ We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . ' Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses ...
Pagina 163
... " Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , 6 lookin ' about at the ships in the river The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
... " Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , 6 lookin ' about at the ships in the river The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
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