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 23
... Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum ...
... Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum ...
Pagina 114
... Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings - much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury — and summoned before him all those whose testimony might illumine the financial tragedy that had accompanied the less mo- mentous ...
... Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings - much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury — and summoned before him all those whose testimony might illumine the financial tragedy that had accompanied the less mo- mentous ...
Pagina 116
... Casa Morena , and greeted his guest frankly and friendly . Then the two strolled , in the 116 Cabbages and Kings.
... Casa Morena , and greeted his guest frankly and friendly . Then the two strolled , in the 116 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 242
... Casa Morena for an informal interview . Keogh gripped his pipe tightly between his teeth . " Not a cent less than ten thousand , " he said to the artist " remember the price . And in gold or its equivalent - don't let him stick you with ...
... Casa Morena for an informal interview . Keogh gripped his pipe tightly between his teeth . " Not a cent less than ten thousand , " he said to the artist " remember the price . And in gold or its equivalent - don't let him stick you with ...
Pagina 244
... Casa Morena , although only one story in height , was a building of brown stone , luxurious as a palace in its interior . It stood on a low hill in a walled garden of splendid tropical flora at the upper edge of Coralio . The next day ...
... Casa Morena , although only one story in height , was a building of brown stone , luxurious as a palace in its interior . It stood on a low hill in a walled garden of splendid tropical flora at the upper edge of Coralio . The next day ...
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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