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 5
... seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the ...
... seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest ; but , to the ...
Pagina 6
... such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she I " FOX - IN - THE - MORNING ” 6 Cabbages and Kings.
... such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she I " FOX - IN - THE - MORNING ” 6 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 11
... seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but even more incorruptible than the frowning moun- tains . The waves swished along ...
... seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but even more incorruptible than the frowning moun- tains . The waves swished along ...
Pagina 12
... seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy ...
... seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy ...
Pagina 32
... seemed like an irritating dream . He hoped Ida would be as happy as he was .. The climate as balmy as that of distant Avalon ; the fetterless , idyllic round of enchanted days ; the life among this indolent , romantic people — a life ...
... seemed like an irritating dream . He hoped Ida would be as happy as he was .. The climate as balmy as that of distant Avalon ; the fetterless , idyllic round of enchanted days ; the life among this indolent , romantic people — a life ...
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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