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 8
... tintype man , the enlarged photo- graph brigand , the kodaking tourist and the scouts of the gentle brigade of fakirs have found it out , and carry on the work . The hucksters of Germany , France , and Sicily now bag its small change ...
... tintype man , the enlarged photo- graph brigand , the kodaking tourist and the scouts of the gentle brigade of fakirs have found it out , and carry on the work . The hucksters of Germany , France , and Sicily now bag its small change ...
Pagina 12
... Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set two large frames filled with specimens of their art and skill . Keogh leaned in the ...
... Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set two large frames filled with specimens of their art and skill . Keogh leaned in the ...
Pagina 20
... " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I resign myself to a life of praise- worthy but harassing honesty . What are tintypes , if you please , to the opportunities of the great 20 Cabbages and Kings.
... " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I resign myself to a life of praise- worthy but harassing honesty . What are tintypes , if you please , to the opportunities of the great 20 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 22
... tintypes after we impoverish her royal escort . ” But " She could do worse , " reflected Keogh ; " but she won't . ' Tis not a tintype gallery , but the gallery of the gods that she's fitted to adorn . She's a very wicked lady , and the ...
... tintypes after we impoverish her royal escort . ” But " She could do worse , " reflected Keogh ; " but she won't . ' Tis not a tintype gallery , but the gallery of the gods that she's fitted to adorn . She's a very wicked lady , and the ...
Pagina 162
... tintype was but one of the many callings that had wooed him upon so many roads . Sometimes he could be persuaded to oral construction of his voyages into the informal and egregious . To - night there were symptoms of divulge- ment in ...
... tintype was but one of the many callings that had wooed him upon so many roads . Sometimes he could be persuaded to oral construction of his voyages into the informal and egregious . To - night there were symptoms of divulge- ment in ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla