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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... GRAFT 11 25 • 44 62 CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO . 82 92 VII . MONEY MAZE • · 113 VIII . THE ADMIRAL • IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT · • 130 144 THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE . XII . SHOES X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI . 161 · 189 • • • • 204 XIII ...
... GRAFT 11 25 • 44 62 CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO . 82 92 VII . MONEY MAZE • · 113 VIII . THE ADMIRAL • IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT · • 130 144 THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE . XII . SHOES X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI . 161 · 189 • • • • 204 XIII ...
Pagina 90
... graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest ...
... graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest ...
Pagina 91
... I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
... I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
Pagina 92
O. Henry. VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this graft ? " asked Johnny , with the impatience of the great public to whom tales are told . " " Tis contrary to art and philosophy to give you the information , " said Keogh ...
O. Henry. VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this graft ? " asked Johnny , with the impatience of the great public to whom tales are told . " " Tis contrary to art and philosophy to give you the information , " said Keogh ...
Pagina 93
... kickers . Hey ? Why , empty cases with one of them horny black bugs that fly around electric lights in ' em . Them bugs kick off minutes and seconds in- dustrious and beautiful . So , this man I was The Phonograph and the Graft 93.
... kickers . Hey ? Why , empty cases with one of them horny black bugs that fly around electric lights in ' em . Them bugs kick off minutes and seconds in- dustrious and beautiful . So , this man I was The Phonograph and the Graft 93.
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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