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 34
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost quiescent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and ...
... cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost quiescent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and ...
Pagina 59
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
... cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter ...
Pagina 60
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
... cocoanut palm , and with the beady , shifting eyes of the selfsame reptile , sustained his espionage on the Karlsefin . On the white sands a whiter gig belonging to the yacht was drawn up , guarded by one of the white- ducked crew . Not ...
Pagina 61
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
... cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV ...
Pagina 95
... cocoanut would drop kerblip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging to ...
... cocoanut would drop kerblip in the sand ; and that was all there was doing . Yes , I judge that town was considerably on the quiet . I judge that after Gabriel quits blowing his horn , and the car starts , with Philadelphia swinging to ...
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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