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
... Clancy " — a nomenclature that 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 protographs were the ...
... Clancy " — a nomenclature that 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 protographs were the ...
Pagina 22
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the But rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the ...
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the But rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the ...
Pagina 161
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the earth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the earth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
Pagina 162
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
Pagina 163
... Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . - ― " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
... Clancy , with seeming irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . - ― " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
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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