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 6
... Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she endowed with ...
... Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct . Far beyond the common woman was she endowed with ...
Pagina 8
... Spanish Main . segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by mystery and romance . In past times ...
... Spanish Main . segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by mystery and romance . In past times ...
Pagina 12
... 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 large frames filled with specimens of their art and skill . Keogh ...
... 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 large frames filled with specimens of their art and skill . Keogh ...
Pagina 14
... Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon which he might make requisition with ...
... Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed but one code upon which he might make requisition with ...
Pagina 16
... Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore ...
... Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore ...
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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