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 46
Two or three of the freighter sloops were engaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anxious to make a quick return in order to reap the advantage offered by a certain dearth of fruit in the States . About four o'clock in the ...
Two or three of the freighter sloops were engaged to assist in the work , for the captain was anxious to make a quick return in order to reap the advantage offered by a certain dearth of fruit in the States . About four o'clock in the ...
Pagina 95
“ The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
“ The captain went ashore with us , and offered to conduct what he seemed to like to call the obsequies The Phonograph and the Graft 95.
Pagina 96
“ I touch here again a week from to - day , ' says the captain . “ By that time , ' we told him , we'll be amassing wealth in the interior towns with our galvanized prima donna and correct imitations of Sousa's band excavating a march ...
“ I touch here again a week from to - day , ' says the captain . “ By that time , ' we told him , we'll be amassing wealth in the interior towns with our galvanized prima donna and correct imitations of Sousa's band excavating a march ...
Pagina 111
... tell him I'm coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' “ Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge ...
... tell him I'm coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' “ Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge ...
Pagina 112
“ I told you so , ' says the captain again . " Climb in the boat . ' “ And that , ” said Keogh , “ is the way me and Henry Horsecollar introduced the phonograph into this country . Henry went back to the States , but I've been rummaging ...
“ I told you so , ' says the captain again . " Climb in the boat . ' “ And that , ” said Keogh , “ is the way me and Henry Horsecollar introduced the phonograph into this country . Henry went back to the States , but I've been rummaging ...
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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'Università della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 310 pagine |
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