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 22
... Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the ...
... Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the ...
Pagina 46
... Caribs began to load upon lighters the thousands of bunches of bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser ...
... Caribs began to load upon lighters the thousands of bunches of bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser ...
Pagina 59
... Caribs were busy loading her by means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith ...
... Caribs were busy loading her by means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith ...
Pagina 73
... Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are there any inducements , say in a social or in a business way , for people to reside ...
... Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are there any inducements , say in a social or in a business way , for people to reside ...
Pagina 138
... Caribs , bare to the waist , the sand spurting in showers from the spring of their naked feet . Briefly and with dignity Felipe demanded his vessel of the collector . And now a fresh honour awaited him . The collector's wife , who ...
... Caribs , bare to the waist , the sand spurting in showers from the spring of their naked feet . Briefly and with dignity Felipe demanded his vessel of the collector . And now a fresh honour awaited him . The collector's wife , who ...
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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