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 126
... Beelzebub " Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his ...
Pagina 128
... lot , will you , like a good fellow ? " " All right , " said Goodwin . " Buenas noches . " " Beelzebub " Blythe lingered over his cups , polish- ing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handker- chief . " 128 Cabbages and Kings.
... lot , will you , like a good fellow ? " " All right , " said Goodwin . " Buenas noches . " " Beelzebub " Blythe lingered over his cups , polish- ing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handker- chief . " 128 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 189
... of spread- ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189 XII.
... of spread- ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189 XII.
Pagina 190
... Beelzebub " Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the market . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the market . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became ...
Pagina 192
... Beelzebub " Blythe had reached rock bottom . Fur ther descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe had reached rock bottom . Fur ther descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that ...
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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