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 31
... having finished his breakfast , took his papers to the edge of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the 66 66 on dit a little sea .
... having finished his breakfast , took his papers to the edge of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the 66 66 on dit a little sea .
Pagina 37
... and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem .
... and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem .
Pagina 41
Then , very deliberately , he lighted a cigar , and took the bottle in his hand , and walked down the path to the beach . There was a moon , and the sea was glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now ...
Then , very deliberately , he lighted a cigar , and took the bottle in his hand , and walked down the path to the beach . There was a moon , and the sea was glorious . The breeze had shifted , as it did each evening , and was now ...
Pagina 59
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated ...
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated ...
Pagina 61
In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the ...
In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the ...
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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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