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 3
... Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of ...
... Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of ...
Pagina 4
... Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being ...
... Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being ...
Pagina 5
... Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ...
... Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ...
Pagina 6
... Coralio one learns of the im- petuous career of Isabel Guilbert . New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish crcole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a ...
... Coralio one learns of the im- petuous career of Isabel Guilbert . New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish crcole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a ...
Pagina 11
... often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- 11 ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of I.
... often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- 11 ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of I.
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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