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 3
... headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they pursue I THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER.
... headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they pursue I THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER.
Pagina 7
... 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 dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach ...
... 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 dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach ...
Pagina 14
... Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people ... An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
... Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people ... An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
Pagina 15
... Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and ... Anchurian " Fox - in - the - Morning " 15.
... Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and ... Anchurian " Fox - in - the - Morning " 15.
Pagina 16
O. Henry. 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 ...
O. Henry. 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 ...
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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 Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution 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 tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla