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 3
... revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will ...
... revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will ...
Pagina 13
... revolution . " Goodwin had strolled up the street and met the boy with the message . The ox - eyed women gazed at him with shy admiration , for his type drew them . He was big , blonde , and jauntily dressed in white linen , with ...
... revolution . " Goodwin had strolled up the street and met the boy with the message . The ox - eyed women gazed at him with shy admiration , for his type drew them . He was big , blonde , and jauntily dressed in white linen , with ...
Pagina 15
... revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the ... revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a corroboration of his wisdom . The telegram , which had ...
... revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the ... revolution , and now Englehart's telegram had come as a corroboration of his wisdom . The telegram , which had ...
Pagina 50
... revolutions come from . I had no idea there was so much scenery down here . Why , Central Park ain't in it with this neck of the woods . I'm from New York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here — is that right ...
... revolutions come from . I had no idea there was so much scenery down here . Why , Central Park ain't in it with this neck of the woods . I'm from New York . They get monkeys , and cocoanuts , and par- rots down here — is that right ...
Pagina 97
... revolution . But you can try the experiment . The best chance you have is that the populace may not wake up when you play . There's two ways , ' says the consul , ' they may take it . They may become inebriated with attention , like an ...
... revolution . But you can try the experiment . The best chance you have is that the populace may not wake up when you play . There's two ways , ' says the consul , ' they may take it . They may become inebriated with attention , like an ...
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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