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 23
... Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On ...
... Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On ...
Pagina 27
... fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you cach in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By ...
... fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you cach in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By ...
Pagina 34
... fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf ...
... fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf ...
Pagina 45
... 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 was ...
... 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 was ...
Pagina 46
... fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the ...
... fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for 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