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
... lady is casily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her ...
... lady is casily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her ...
Pagina 21
... ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds ...
... ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds ...
Pagina 22
... lady , and the president man is in luck . But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent ...
... lady , and the president man is in luck . But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent ...
Pagina 24
... mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
... mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 33
... mules , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
... mules , and carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
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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