Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews, 1916 - 312 pagine A 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. |
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Pagina 126
... Beelzebub " Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . 99 Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . 99 Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his ...
Pagina 128
... lot , will you , like a good fellow ? " 66 " All right , " said Goodwin . Buenas noches . " " Beelzebub " Blythe lingered over his cups , pol ishing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handker- chief . " 128 Cabbages and Kings.
... lot , will you , like a good fellow ? " 66 " All right , " said Goodwin . Buenas noches . " " Beelzebub " Blythe lingered over his cups , pol ishing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handker- chief . " 128 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 189
... of spread- ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189.
... of spread- ing their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group . For there upon their space of the platform was sprawled , asleep , the unbeautiful figure of " Beelzebub " Blythe . He lay 189.
Pagina 190
... Beelzebub " Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe . He sat up , blinking , and leaned his back against the wall of the mar- ket . Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket , he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses . And while doing this he became ...
Pagina 192
... Beelzebub " Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that ...
... Beelzebub " Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that ...
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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 Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla