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 14
Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Pagina 16
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital
city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in
his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose ...
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital
city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in
his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose ...
Pagina 19
The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety -
joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed
appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless
precipices ...
The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety -
joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed
appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless
precipices ...
Pagina 20
I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet .
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr
.
I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet .
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr
.
Pagina 25
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ;
and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was
interested in his report . He was ice from you . ; only twenty - four ; and he had not
25 THE ...
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ;
and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was
interested in his report . He was ice from you . ; only twenty - four ; and he had not
25 THE ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | l'Università della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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