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 113
... Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a diplo- mat , a spy , a ruler of men , a body ...
... Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a diplo- mat , a spy , a ruler of men , a body ...
Pagina 124
... Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went on the American , looking steadily into the eyes of the other man , and giving each word a deliberate emphasis , " you will oblige ...
... Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went on the American , looking steadily into the eyes of the other man , and giving each word a deliberate emphasis , " you will oblige ...
Pagina 128
... Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle , don't you think ? ” " Undoubtedly , he would , " agreed Goodwin calmly , as he rose leisurely to his feet . " I ...
... Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle , don't you think ? ” " Undoubtedly , he would , " agreed Goodwin calmly , as he rose leisurely to his feet . " I ...
Pagina 130
... Losada , the new presi- dent . The ousted office - holders and military fav- ourites organized a new " Liberal " party , and be- gan to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese ...
... Losada , the new presi- dent . The ousted office - holders and military fav- ourites organized a new " Liberal " party , and be- gan to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese ...
Pagina 133
... Losada himself . The champagne was bubbling trickily in the veins of the mercurial statesmen . It was not the custom of the grave governors of Anchuria to enliven their sessions with a beverage so apt to cast a veil of dis- paragement ...
... Losada himself . The champagne was bubbling trickily in the veins of the mercurial statesmen . It was not the custom of the grave governors of Anchuria to enliven their sessions with a beverage so apt to cast a veil of dis- paragement ...
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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