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 19
... and wriggled like a snake through sunless forests teeming with menacing
insect and animal life . After descending to the foothills it turned to a trident , the
central prong ending at Alazan . Another branched off to Coralio ; the third
penetrated ...
... and wriggled like a snake through sunless forests teeming with menacing
insect and animal life . After descending to the foothills it turned to a trident , the
central prong ending at Alazan . Another branched off to Coralio ; the third
penetrated ...
Pagina 22
Goodwin turned from the main street into a much narrower one that intersected it
at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass
, which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police .
Goodwin turned from the main street into a much narrower one that intersected it
at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass
, which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police .
Pagina 40
... Golondrina . ' At the door his tame monkey leaped down from his shelf ,
chattering briskly . The consul turned to his desk to 40 Cabbages and Kings.
... Golondrina . ' At the door his tame monkey leaped down from his shelf ,
chattering briskly . The consul turned to his desk to 40 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 41
The consul turned to his desk to get him some nuts he usually kept there .
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as
if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle
was ...
The consul turned to his desk to get him some nuts he usually kept there .
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as
if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle
was ...
Pagina 55
As they turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly
up and addressed the doctor in Spanish . He was yellowish - brown , like an over
- ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a leather
...
As they turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly
up and addressed the doctor in Spanish . He was yellowish - brown , like an over
- ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a leather
...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | l'Università della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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