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 6
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish crcole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
... Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish crcole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far ...
Pagina 33
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplish- ments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she some- times was ...
... Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplish- ments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and Manhattan . But it was delicious to see her at home dressed , as she some- times was ...
Pagina 45
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
... Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that ...
Pagina 163
... " Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , lookin ' about at the ships in the river . The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
... " Tis a statement demandin ' elucidation and apologies . " " Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June ; I was standin ' down on the wharf , lookin ' about at the ships in the river . The Shamrock and the Palm 163.
Pagina 177
... , affable and easy , rollin ' a cigarette . ' Him come from New Orleans for load banana . Him got load last night . I think him sail in one , two hour . Verree nice day we shall be goin ' have . The Shamrock and the Palm 177.
... , affable and easy , rollin ' a cigarette . ' Him come from New Orleans for load banana . Him got load last night . I think him sail in one , two hour . Verree nice day we shall be goin ' have . The Shamrock and the Palm 177.
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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