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 26
... Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint ...
... Gregg , the quaran- tine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet , expecting to find it quoting his reports to the home Board of Health concerning the yellow fever germ . The consul knew that not one in fifty of his acquaint ...
Pagina 42
... Gregg or Mr. Goodwin or anybody that's a friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? ” " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate ...
... Gregg or Mr. Goodwin or anybody that's a friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? ” " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate ...
Pagina 48
... Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum ...
... Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was gone out to sea , and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum ...
Pagina 52
... Gregg at the hotel , ” said the consul . " You can see it from the door- it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by ...
... Gregg at the hotel , ” said the consul . " You can see it from the door- it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by ...
Pagina 53
... Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in ...
... Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city in ...
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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