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 4
... relate further that Doņa Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her distinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thousand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , awaiting a rising tide .
... relate further that Doņa Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her distinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thousand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast , awaiting a rising tide .
Pagina 5
His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold ...
His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold ...
Pagina 8
ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea ...
ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea ...
Pagina 11
The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Behind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordilleras .
The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Behind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordilleras .
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admiral American Anchuria asked bananas beach began Billy Blythe boat bottle brought capital captain carried chair cigar Clancy close coast consul Coralio dark Dicky dollars door entered eyes face five followed friends fruit Geddie give Goodwin hand head heard Henry hundred Johnny keep Keogh kind lady land light looked means Mellinger minutes morning move native never night once paint passed picture play president republic running says seemed Seņor shoes shore side sitting sloop smile soon Spanish speak stand steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thought thousand told took town tree tropics turned Twas waiting walked White York young
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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