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
... Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his fall . Once ...
... Blythe , with the air of a courtier and the outward aspect of a scarecrow , pounced upon him hopefully from the door of a pulperia . Blythe had been re - christened " Beelzebub " as an acknowledgment of the greatness of his fall . Once ...
Pagina 127
... Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi- muchacho ! - el aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . 99 asked " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe ...
... Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi- muchacho ! - el aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . 99 asked " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe ...
Pagina 128
... Blythe sipped blissfully from his , as he began to enter the state of a true idealist . 66 " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada ...
... Blythe sipped blissfully from his , as he began to enter the state of a true idealist . 66 " I must trot along in a minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada ...
Pagina 189
... 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 XI THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE.
... 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 XI THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE.
Pagina 190
... 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 aware that ...
... 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 aware 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