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
... 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 two ...
... 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 two ...
Pagina 13
... Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day ...
... Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day ...
Pagina 14
... Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and ...
... Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and ...
Pagina 17
... Keogh . " Read that , 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 ...
... Keogh . " Read that , 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 ...
Pagina 18
... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his ...
... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his ...
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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