Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews, 1915 - 312 pagine A 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. |
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Pagina 12
... Clancy " a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the ...
... Clancy " a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the ...
Pagina 22
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the flying ...
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the flying ...
Pagina 161
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the earth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the earth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
Pagina 162
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
Pagina 163
... Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
... Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
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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 Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin 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
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - C/ORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...
Pagina 9 - Gentleman adventurers throng the i waiting-rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions. The little opera-bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys.