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 82
... Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned . Without prejudice to Mr. Atwood , it will have ... Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of ...
... Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned . Without prejudice to Mr. Atwood , it will have ... Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of ...
Pagina 83
... Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for " Hemstetter . " This young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions ...
... Dalesburg there was a man named Elijah Hemstetter , who kept a general store . His family consisted of one daughter called Rosine , a name that atoned much for " Hemstetter . " This young woman was possessed of plentiful attrac- tions ...
Pagina 86
... Dalesburg ; and you might know every thought conceived in his bosom . Geddie came down to the consulate to explain the duties and workings of the office . He and Keogh tried to interest the new consul in their description of the work ...
... Dalesburg ; and you might know every thought conceived in his bosom . Geddie came down to the consulate to explain the duties and workings of the office . He and Keogh tried to interest the new consul in their description of the work ...
Pagina 89
... Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the rail- ing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ...
... Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the rail- ing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ...
Pagina 91
... Dalesburg . " " You shall hear it , " said Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT ...
... Dalesburg . " " You shall hear it , " said Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT ...
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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