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 207
... Pasa , her daughter , that went to school in the States - she brought back some civilized notions in the way of footgear . And there's the comandante's sister that dresses up her feet on feast - days — and Mrs. Geddie , who wears a two ...
... Pasa , her daughter , that went to school in the States - she brought back some civilized notions in the way of footgear . And there's the comandante's sister that dresses up her feet on feast - days — and Mrs. Geddie , who wears a two ...
Pagina 262
... Pasa , the daughter of Madama Ortiz , sitting in the side - door of the Hotel des los Estranjeros . He stopped in his tracks , still , for the first time in Coralio ; and then he sped , swift as a deer , to find Vasquez , a gilded ...
... Pasa , the daughter of Madama Ortiz , sitting in the side - door of the Hotel des los Estranjeros . He stopped in his tracks , still , for the first time in Coralio ; and then he sped , swift as a deer , to find Vasquez , a gilded ...
Pagina 263
... Pasa sat by the window in the room next to the one where they drank , and strummed dreamily upon her guitar . And then , by twos and threes , would come visiting young cabal- leros and occupy the prim line of chairs set against the wall ...
... Pasa sat by the window in the room next to the one where they drank , and strummed dreamily upon her guitar . And then , by twos and threes , would come visiting young cabal- leros and occupy the prim line of chairs set against the wall ...
Pagina 264
... Pasa was descended from the proudest Spanish families in the country . Moreover , she had had un- usual advantages . Two years in a New Orleans school had elevated her ambitions and fitted her for a fate above the ordinary maidens of ...
... Pasa was descended from the proudest Spanish families in the country . Moreover , she had had un- usual advantages . Two years in a New Orleans school had elevated her ambitions and fitted her for a fate above the ordinary maidens of ...
Pagina 266
... Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own suspicion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their contents she never felt curiosity . There was a wife for you ! The one ...
... Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own suspicion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their contents she never felt curiosity . There was a wife for you ! The one ...
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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