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 103
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
Pagina 139
... crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in The Admiral 139.
... crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in The Admiral 139.
Pagina 237
... painting pictures yet . " Keogh glanced about the studio with the shrewd eye of a connoisseur in business . " Yes , you ... paint that does the trick . Now , I can tell you in a minute what I want . I've come on a little voyage of two ...
... painting pictures yet . " Keogh glanced about the studio with the shrewd eye of a connoisseur in business . " Yes , you ... paint that does the trick . Now , I can tell you in a minute what I want . I've come on a little voyage of two ...
Pagina 238
... paint a pic- ture ? Ninety days for the trip , and five thousand dollars for the job . " " Cereal food or hair - tonic posters ? " asked White . " It isn't an ad . ” " What kind of a picture is it to be ? " " It's a long story , " said ...
... paint a pic- ture ? Ninety days for the trip , and five thousand dollars for the job . " " Cereal food or hair - tonic posters ? " asked White . " It isn't an ad . ” " What kind of a picture is it to be ? " " It's a long story , " said ...
Pagina 239
... painting shop , and I'll help you . " For five months in the year Coralio is the Newport on Anchuria . Then only does the town possess life . From November to March it is practically the scat of government . The president with his ...
... painting shop , and I'll help you . " For five months in the year Coralio is the Newport on Anchuria . Then only does the town possess life . From November to March it is practically the scat of government . The president with his ...
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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