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 5
... close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the more curious reader it shall be some slight in- struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous The Proem 5.
... close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the more curious reader it shall be some slight in- struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous The Proem 5.
Pagina 6
O. Henry. struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the ...
O. Henry. struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the ...
Pagina 37
... close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief , the handwriting was hers . The imperfect glass of the bottle so distorted the rays of light that ...
... close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief , the handwriting was hers . The imperfect glass of the bottle so distorted the rays of light that ...
Pagina 62
... close watch . Good- win held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious political party that was ...
... close watch . Good- win held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious political party that was ...
Pagina 64
... close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the ...
... close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the ...
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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