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 24
... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 28
... brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He ...
... brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He ...
Pagina 29
... brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that ...
... brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that ...
Pagina 35
... brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all uncertainty had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his ...
... brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all uncertainty had been erased . He knew that men sometimes hope without being aware of it . Now , since she had come two thousand miles and had passed without a sign , not even his ...
Pagina 36
... brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
... brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next influx beached it clear , and Ged- die picked it up . The thing was a long - necked wine bottle of colourless glass . The cork had been ...
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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