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 52
... Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left ...
... Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left ...
Pagina 53
... Madama's sepulchral hospitalit . But Madama sat behind her bar content , not desiring to quarrel with Fate . If anyone required meat , drink or lodging at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno ...
... Madama's sepulchral hospitalit . But Madama sat behind her bar content , not desiring to quarrel with Fate . If anyone required meat , drink or lodging at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno ...
Pagina 65
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
Pagina 66
O. Henry. stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after a time her light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show ...
O. Henry. stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after a time her light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show ...
Pagina 67
... should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from her jour- ney above to Caught 67.
... should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from her jour- ney above to Caught 67.
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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