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 11
... word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- 11 ulated with those who desired ...
... word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- 11 ulated with those who desired ...
Pagina 32
... word had passed between them , though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not ...
... word had passed between them , though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not ...
Pagina 37
... word of the writing ; but certain capital let- ters , of which he caught comprehensive glimpses , were Ida's , he felt sure . There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and ...
... word of the writing ; but certain capital let- ters , of which he caught comprehensive glimpses , were Ida's , he felt sure . There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and ...
Pagina 54
... words of Spanish was no obstacle ; a pulse could be felt and a fee collected without one being a linguist . Add to the description the facts that the doctor had a story to tell concerning the operation of trepanning which no listener ...
... words of Spanish was no obstacle ; a pulse could be felt and a fee collected without one being a linguist . Add to the description the facts that the doctor had a story to tell concerning the operation of trepanning which no listener ...
Pagina 55
... words were to be wasted . Dr. Gregg felt his pulse . " You sick ? " he inquired . " Mi mujer está enferma en la casa , " said the man , thus endeavouring to convey the news , in the only language open to him , that his wife lay ill in ...
... words were to be wasted . Dr. Gregg felt his pulse . " You sick ? " he inquired . " Mi mujer está enferma en la casa , " said the man , thus endeavouring to convey the news , in the only language open to him , that his wife lay ill in ...
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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