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 12
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
Pagina 17
... Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis what they call ...
... Billy , " he said . " It's from Bob Englehart . Can you manage the cipher ? " Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway , and carefully perused the telegram . " " Tis not a cipher , " he said , finally . " " Tis what they call ...
Pagina 18
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
Pagina 20
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
Pagina 21
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
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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