Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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Pagina 3
... American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp . A plain ...
... American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp . A plain ...
Pagina 4
... American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will ...
... American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he shot himself through the head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will ...
Pagina 5
... American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is casily queen of what social life the sober coast ...
... American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is casily queen of what social life the sober coast ...
Pagina 14
... American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the ...
... American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the ...
Pagina 15
... Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He had taken up political intrigue as a matter of business . He was acute enough to ...
... Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He had taken up political intrigue as a matter of business . He was acute enough to ...
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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 tintypes tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla