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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Pagina 3
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
Pagina 6
The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with
soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and
the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever
...
The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with
soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and
the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever
...
Pagina 7
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
Pagina 15
There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores . If the
wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000
manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent
career ...
There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores . If the
wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000
manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent
career ...
Pagina 44
III SMITH GOODWIN and the ardent patriot , Zavalla , took all the precautions that
their foresight could contrive to prevent the escape of President Miraflores and
his tompanion . They sent trusted messengers up the coast to Solitas and Alazan
...
III SMITH GOODWIN and the ardent patriot , Zavalla , took all the precautions that
their foresight could contrive to prevent the escape of President Miraflores and
his tompanion . They sent trusted messengers up the coast to Solitas and Alazan
...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | l'Universitā della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 310 pagine |
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