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 6
... grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with his horny fingers , and sprinkles its turf with water from the plaza fountain . There is no grave anywhere so well kept and ordered . Only by following out ...
... grass with his machete , he plucks ants and scorpions and beetles from it with his horny fingers , and sprinkles its turf with water from the plaza fountain . There is no grave anywhere so well kept and ordered . Only by following out ...
Pagina 11
... grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! " The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious ...
... grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! " The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious ...
Pagina 20
... grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I ...
... grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . " That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that sorrow- ful puff of wind I ...
Pagina 22
... grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses . At the outskirts of the village these ...
... grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks , little more than a ledge in width , ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses . At the outskirts of the village these ...
Pagina 63
... grass - covered lanes , lending his own aid to the vigil that had been intrusted to him by Bob Englehart . The town had begun the tepid round of its nightly diversions . A few leisurely dandies , clad in white duck , with flowing ...
... grass - covered lanes , lending his own aid to the vigil that had been intrusted to him by Bob Englehart . The town had begun the tepid round of its nightly diversions . A few leisurely dandies , clad in white duck , with flowing ...
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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