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 12
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
Pagina 16
... new government . Therefore it was exceeding necessary to " collar the main guy , ” and recapture the sinews of war and government . Goodwin handed the message to Keogh . " Read that , Billy , " he said . 16 Cabbages and Kings.
... new government . Therefore it was exceeding necessary to " collar the main guy , ” and recapture the sinews of war and government . Goodwin handed the message to Keogh . " Read that , Billy , " he said . 16 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 17
O. Henry. " Read that , Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis ...
O. Henry. " Read that , Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis ...
Pagina 18
... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at ...
... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at ...
Pagina 20
... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that ...
... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With 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