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 4
... banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the Cabbages and Kings.
... banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 20
O. Henry. there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of monkeys , tapirs , jaguars , alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects ...
O. Henry. there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of monkeys , tapirs , jaguars , alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects ...
Pagina 26
... bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla - actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the previous year ! ― A little thrill of ...
... bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla - actually , exports were twenty per cent . greater than for the previous year ! ― A little thrill of ...
Pagina 34
... banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon ...
... banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon ...
Pagina 46
... bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning ...
... bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning ...
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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