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 13
... side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate ...
... side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate ...
Pagina 22
... side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous ...
... side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous ...
Pagina 29
... sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and ... side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's ...
... sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and ... side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's ...
Pagina 37
... side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had ...
... side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had ...
Pagina 52
... side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door ...
... side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door ...
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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