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
About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving .
About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving .
Pagina 77
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ...
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ...
Pagina 100
... and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told was us . 666 “ Boys , ' said he , “ I've deceived you . You think , I'm a painted butterfly ; but ...
... and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told was us . 666 “ Boys , ' said he , “ I've deceived you . You think , I'm a painted butterfly ; but ...
Pagina 103
It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town .
It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town .
Pagina 139
... of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his The Admiral 139.
... of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in his The Admiral 139.
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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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