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 140
... El Nacional . During the next few months the navy had its troubles . Even an admiral is perplexed to know what to do without any orders . But none came . Neither did any salaries . El Nacional swung idly at anchor . When Felipe's little ...
... El Nacional . During the next few months the navy had its troubles . Even an admiral is perplexed to know what to do without any orders . But none came . Neither did any salaries . El Nacional swung idly at anchor . When Felipe's little ...
Pagina 141
... El Nacional turned out with the other coast craft and became a wage - earner . She worked with the lighters freighting bananas and oranges out to the fruit steamers that could not approach nearer than a mile from the shore . Surely a ...
... El Nacional turned out with the other coast craft and became a wage - earner . She worked with the lighters freighting bananas and oranges out to the fruit steamers that could not approach nearer than a mile from the shore . Surely a ...
Pagina 146
... El Nacional was tacking swiftly down coast in a stiff landward breeze . The Rio Ruiz is a small river , emptying into the sea ten miles below Coralio . That portion of the coast is wild and solitary . Through a gorge in the Cordilleras ...
... El Nacional was tacking swiftly down coast in a stiff landward breeze . The Rio Ruiz is a small river , emptying into the sea ten miles below Coralio . That portion of the coast is wild and solitary . Through a gorge in the Cordilleras ...
Pagina 150
... El Nacional set themselves with fam- ished delight . About sunset , as was its custom , the breeze veered and swept back from the mountains , cool and steady , bringing a taste of the stagnant lagoons and mangrove swamps that guttered ...
... El Nacional set themselves with fam- ished delight . About sunset , as was its custom , the breeze veered and swept back from the mountains , cool and steady , bringing a taste of the stagnant lagoons and mangrove swamps that guttered ...
Pagina 152
... El Nacional swerved , and headed straight as an arrow's course for the shore . " Do me the favour , " said the large man , a trifle restively , " to acknowledge , at least , that you catch the sound of my words . " It was possible that ...
... El Nacional swerved , and headed straight as an arrow's course for the shore . " Do me the favour , " said the large man , a trifle restively , " to acknowledge , at least , that you catch the sound of my words . " It was possible that ...
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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