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 90
... Mellinger , " explained Keogh , dropping back into his chair . " He's going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job's over now ; and ...
... Mellinger , " explained Keogh , dropping back into his chair . " He's going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job's over now ; and ...
Pagina 99
... Mellinger , ' says the man - ' Homer P. Mellinger . Boys , you're confiscated . You're babes in the wood without a chaperon or referee , and it's my duty to start you going . I'll knock out the props and launch you proper in the ...
... Mellinger , ' says the man - ' Homer P. Mellinger . Boys , you're confiscated . You're babes in the wood without a chaperon or referee , and it's my duty to start you going . I'll knock out the props and launch you proper in the ...
Pagina 100
... Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agi- tated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink ...
... Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agi- tated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink ...
Pagina 101
... Mellinger he cooks and seasons it . In the front office I fill the president's inkstand and search visit- ing statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the policy of the government . You'd never guess in the ...
... Mellinger he cooks and seasons it . In the front office I fill the president's inkstand and search visit- ing statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the policy of the government . You'd never guess in the ...
Pagina 102
... Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : 66 " Boys , I'm to hold a soirée this evening with a gang of leading citizens , and I want your assistance . You bring the musical ...
... Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : 66 " Boys , I'm to hold a soirée this evening with a gang of leading citizens , and I want your assistance . You bring the musical ...
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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