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 5
... honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light ...
... honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the table of Señora Goodwin . Were you to refer ( with your northern prejudices ) to the vivacious past of Mrs. Goodwin when her audacious and gleeful abandon in light ...
Pagina 68
... honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north and Rio to the south . Set out the bottle , Madama , and let us ...
... honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north and Rio to the south . Set out the bottle , Madama , and let us ...
Pagina 75
... honour , and is about to lose the poor consolation of his stolen riches as much as I blame you , for , by Heaven ! I can very well see how he was brought to it . I can understand , and pity him . It is such women as you that strew this ...
... honour , and is about to lose the poor consolation of his stolen riches as much as I blame you , for , by Heaven ! I can very well see how he was brought to it . I can understand , and pity him . It is such women as you that strew this ...
Pagina 78
... honoured room- " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the ...
... honoured room- " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the ...
Pagina 80
... honours , back of the town near the little bridge that spans the mangrove swamp ; and for a real a boy will show you his grave . They say that the old woman in whose hut the barber shaved the president placed the wooden slab at his head ...
... honours , back of the town near the little bridge that spans the mangrove swamp ; and for a real a boy will show you his grave . They say that the old woman in whose hut the barber shaved the president placed the wooden slab at his head ...
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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