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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Pagina 34
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom ...
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom ...
Pagina 59
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
Pagina 60
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
Pagina 61
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
Pagina 95
... cocoanut would drop ker- blip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging ...
... cocoanut would drop ker- blip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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