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 13
... white linen , with buckskin zapatos . His manner was courtly , with a sort of kindly truculence in it , tempered by a merciful eye . When the telegram had been delivered , and the bearer of it dismissed with a gratuity , the re- lieved ...
... white linen , with buckskin zapatos . His manner was courtly , with a sort of kindly truculence in it , tempered by a merciful eye . When the telegram had been delivered , and the bearer of it dismissed with a gratuity , the re- lieved ...
Pagina 23
... White House 99 of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market ...
... White House 99 of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market ...
Pagina 33
... white tropic nights with all he was more than content . Also , there was Paula Brannigan . Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept ...
... white tropic nights with all he was more than content . Also , there was Paula Brannigan . Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept ...
Pagina 34
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore- and , The gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore- and , The gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 35
... white yacht as she drew swiftly near , and came opposite to Coralio . Then , sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the frequent flash of her ...
... white yacht as she drew swiftly near , and came opposite to Coralio . Then , sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the frequent flash of her ...
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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 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
Brani popolari
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.