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 113
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
Pagina 114
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the 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 ...
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the 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 ...
Pagina 116
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
Pagina 117
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
Pagina 118
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those con- venient and indisputable feminine headaches . " " He has come to inquire about the ...
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those con- venient and indisputable feminine headaches . " " He has come to inquire about the ...
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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