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
... Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast ...
... Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast ...
Pagina 67
... señorita a ladee of so much beautee ! - ah , Dios ! " " All right , Estebán , " said Goodwin . " It's very lucky that you happened along with your tonsorial information . The new administration will be likely to remember you for this ...
... señorita a ladee of so much beautee ! - ah , Dios ! " " All right , Estebán , " said Goodwin . " It's very lucky that you happened along with your tonsorial information . The new administration will be likely to remember you for this ...
Pagina 69
... señorita of suffi- cient handsomeness . To their rooms they have as- . cended , not desiring the to - cat nor the to - drink . Two rooms - Numero 9 and Numero 10. ” " I was expecting that gentleman and that lady , " said Goodwin . " I ...
... señorita of suffi- cient handsomeness . To their rooms they have as- . cended , not desiring the to - cat nor the to - drink . Two rooms - Numero 9 and Numero 10. ” " I was expecting that gentleman and that lady , " said Goodwin . " I ...
Pagina 115
... señorita of much beauty . - that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried that I did not see . ' 99 - The comandante and other officers gave testimony that they had been ...
... señorita of much beauty . - that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried that I did not see . ' 99 - The comandante and other officers gave testimony that they had been ...
Pagina 123
... Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe , " concluded Col- onel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late President's tastes would have permitted him to abandon on ...
... Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe , " concluded Col- onel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late President's tastes would have permitted him to abandon on ...
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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