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 19
... sail from -here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess prob- lem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of ...
... sail from -here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess prob- lem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of ...
Pagina 31
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
Pagina 57
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this after- noon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three - Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this after- noon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three - Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
Pagina 66
... sailing have yet to be made . ” At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
... sailing have yet to be made . ” At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
Pagina 88
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . So Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . So Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
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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