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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... . 189 XII . SHOES · 204 XIII . SHIPS 219 XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS . 233 XV . DICKY • 258 XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII . Two RECALLS XVIII . THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE 278 • 293 • 307 THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in.
... . 189 XII . SHOES · 204 XIII . SHIPS 219 XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS . 233 XV . DICKY • 258 XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII . Two RECALLS XVIII . THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE 278 • 293 • 307 THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in.
Pagina 257
... we'll do some more figuring . I'd like to save enough out of our capital for you to have some fried sausages in your joint when you get back to New York . " XV DICKY THERE is little consecutiveness along the Spanish Main Masters of Arts ...
... we'll do some more figuring . I'd like to save enough out of our capital for you to have some fried sausages in your joint when you get back to New York . " XV DICKY THERE is little consecutiveness along the Spanish Main Masters of Arts ...
Pagina 258
... . He had but to speak a word to Geddie to find his credit negotiable for whatever goods he wanted from the store of Brannigan & Company . On the same day on which White arrived in New York Keogh , at the rear 258 XV DICKY.
... . He had but to speak a word to Geddie to find his credit negotiable for whatever goods he wanted from the store of Brannigan & Company . On the same day on which White arrived in New York Keogh , at the rear 258 XV DICKY.
Pagina 259
... gramme of topics that fall pertinent and diverting upon the ear . Atwood was gone - he of the hospitable back porch and ingenuous cunning . Dr. Gregg , with his trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano Dicky 259.
... gramme of topics that fall pertinent and diverting upon the ear . Atwood was gone - he of the hospitable back porch and ingenuous cunning . Dr. Gregg , with his trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano Dicky 259.
Pagina 260
... Dicky Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the ...
... Dicky Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the ...
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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