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 4
To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio will relate the story of the tragic
end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the
public funds and also with Doņa Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera ...
To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio will relate the story of the tragic
end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the
public funds and also with Doņa Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera ...
Pagina 5
What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Seņora Goodwin seemed now
to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the
story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a ...
What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Seņora Goodwin seemed now
to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the
story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a ...
Pagina 6
Elsewhere than at Coralio one learns of the impetuous career of Isabel Guilbert .
New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature
that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education ...
Elsewhere than at Coralio one learns of the impetuous career of Isabel Guilbert .
New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature
that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education ...
Pagina 13
He had been smoking with Willard Geddie , the consul , on the back porch of the
consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . Hurry up , ”
shouted Keogh . 66 There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for
...
He had been smoking with Willard Geddie , the consul , on the back porch of the
consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . Hurry up , ”
shouted Keogh . 66 There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for
...
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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'Universitā della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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