Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 3
... hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather ...
... hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather ...
Pagina 5
... hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her ...
... hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her ...
Pagina 12
... humor- ous countenance wearing a look of interest at the unusual influx of life and sound into the street . When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : 12 Cabbages and Kings.
... humor- ous countenance wearing a look of interest at the unusual influx of life and sound into the street . When the meaning of the disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : 12 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 13
O. Henry. he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : " Hey ! Frank ! " in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamour of the natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the ...
O. Henry. he placed a hand beside his mouth and shouted : " Hey ! Frank ! " in such a robustious voice that the feeble clamour of the natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the ...
Pagina 17
... ve even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning "
... ve even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning "
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