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 3
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
Pagina 4
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
Pagina 5
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
Pagina 11
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
Pagina 18
... coast to prevent their getting out of the country . " " By the mule - back schedule , " said Keogh , " it's five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three 18 Cabbages and Kings.
... coast to prevent their getting out of the country . " " By the mule - back schedule , " said Keogh , " it's five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three 18 Cabbages and Kings.
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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