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 4
... try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 11
... Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to ...
... Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to ...
Pagina 12
... Señor Goodwin ! " The comandante , Don Senor el Coronel Encarnación Rios , who was loyal to the Ins and suspected Goodwin's devotion to the Outs , hissed : " Aha ! " and wrote in his secret memorandum book the accusive fact that Señor ...
... Señor Goodwin ! " The comandante , Don Senor el Coronel Encarnación Rios , who was loyal to the Ins and suspected Goodwin's devotion to the Outs , hissed : " Aha ! " and wrote in his secret memorandum book the accusive fact that Señor ...
Pagina 56
... Señor , " said the native , sadly . He pulled a cheap silver watch from his own pocket and laid it in the doctor's hand . " Me bring , " said he , struggling painfully with his scant English , " other watchy to - morrow . " Then he ...
... Señor , " said the native , sadly . He pulled a cheap silver watch from his own pocket and laid it in the doctor's hand . " Me bring , " said he , struggling painfully with his scant English , " other watchy to - morrow . " Then he ...
Pagina 66
... house in a dark place . Carramba ! -el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you ---- shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
... house in a dark place . Carramba ! -el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you ---- shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
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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