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
... It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation of the shoe market , and his unparalleled feat 82 VI.
... It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation of the shoe market , and his unparalleled feat 82 VI.
Pagina 83
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
Pagina 84
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream ...
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream ...
Pagina 85
... Johnny shook hands . with Rosine as coolly as if he were only going to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
... Johnny shook hands . with Rosine as coolly as if he were only going to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
Pagina 86
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
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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