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 3
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
Pagina 7
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
Pagina 14
Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Pagina 15
He was the most successful of the small advance - guard of speculative
Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable
pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He
had taken up ...
He was the most successful of the small advance - guard of speculative
Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable
pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He
had taken up ...
Pagina 16
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed
him ...
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed
him ...
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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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