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 82
... Johnny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at ...
... Johnny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at ...
Pagina 83
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
Pagina 84
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream ...
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream ...
Pagina 85
... Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only going to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
... Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only going to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
Pagina 86
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
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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