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 82
... Atwood , of Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned . Without prejudice to Mr. Atwood , it will have to be acknowledged that , in this instance , it was the man who sought the office . As with the self - ban ...
... Atwood , of Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned . Without prejudice to Mr. Atwood , it will have to be acknowledged that , in this instance , it was the man who sought the office . As with the self - ban ...
Pagina 83
... Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the state long before and since ...
... Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the state long before and since ...
Pagina 84
... Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in his pedigree and heart . A Hemstetter refuse an Atwood ! Zounds ! Among other accidents of that year was a Demo- cratic ...
... Atwood bowed till his hat touched the lawn grass , and went away with his head high , but with a sore wound in his pedigree and heart . A Hemstetter refuse an Atwood ! Zounds ! Among other accidents of that year was a Demo- cratic ...
Pagina 86
... Atwood , of Dalesburg ; and you might know every thought conceived in his bosom . Geddie came down to the consulate to explain the duties and workings of the office . He and Keogh tried to interest the new consul in their description of ...
... Atwood , of Dalesburg ; and you might know every thought conceived in his bosom . Geddie came down to the consulate to explain the duties and workings of the office . He and Keogh tried to interest the new consul in their description of ...
Pagina 87
... Atwood . " Sounds as if it could be stretched . I want to buy a new flag , a monkey , a guitar and a barrel of pineapples . Will that rubber account stretch over ' em ? " " That's merely statistics , " said Geddie , smiling . " The ...
... Atwood . " Sounds as if it could be stretched . I want to buy a new flag , a monkey , a guitar and a barrel of pineapples . Will that rubber account stretch over ' em ? " " That's merely statistics , " said Geddie , smiling . " The ...
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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