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 4
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by ... president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by ... president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 5
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
Pagina 62
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed ... president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious ...
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed ... president's flight had been dis- closed to no one in the coast towns save trusted mem- bers of the ambitious ...
Pagina 101
... president of this republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the ... president's inkstand and search visit- ing statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the ...
... president of this republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the ... president's inkstand and search visit- ing statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the ...
Pagina 106
... why we are here , since I observe my compatriots . You had a whisper yesterday , Señor Mellinger , of our proposals . To - night we will speak out . We know that you stand in the president's favour , and 106 Cabbages and Kings.
... why we are here , since I observe my compatriots . You had a whisper yesterday , Señor Mellinger , of our proposals . To - night we will speak out . We know that you stand in the president's favour , and 106 Cabbages and Kings.
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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