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 5
... Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the ...
... Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the ...
Pagina 33
... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
Pagina 105
... Castilian idioms , that his soul was disconcerted with joy at introducing to his respected friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry got the cue and run on an elegant brass - band record and the festivities ...
... Castilian idioms , that his soul was disconcerted with joy at introducing to his respected friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry got the cue and run on an elegant brass - band record and the festivities ...
Pagina 113
... a matrimonial mate . Colonel Falcon , a handsome and urbane gentle- man of Castilian courtesy and débonnaire manners , came to Coralio with the task before him of striking upon the cold trail of the lost money . There 113 VIII.
... a matrimonial mate . Colonel Falcon , a handsome and urbane gentle- man of Castilian courtesy and débonnaire manners , came to Coralio with the task before him of striking upon the cold trail of the lost money . There 113 VIII.
Pagina 122
... Castilian delicacy , waited for his host to open the question that they had met to discuss . He had not long to wait . As soon as the cigars were lighted , the American cleared the way by inquiring whether the secretary's investigations ...
... Castilian delicacy , waited for his host to open the question that they had met to discuss . He had not long to wait . As soon as the cigars were lighted , the American cleared the way by inquiring whether the secretary's investigations ...
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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