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 23
A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses — the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of ...
A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses — the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of ...
Pagina 27
By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming steamer by the note of her siren .
By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming steamer by the note of her siren .
Pagina 34
His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chanca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the ...
His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chanca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the ...
Pagina 45
On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram the Karlsefin , a Norwegian steamer chartered by the New Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line ...
On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram the Karlsefin , a Norwegian steamer chartered by the New Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line ...
Pagina 46
The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been ...
The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been ...
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