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 95
... Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they re- minded you of hard - boiled eggs served with lettuce . There was a block of skyscraper mountains in ...
... Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they re- minded you of hard - boiled eggs served with lettuce . There was a block of skyscraper mountains in ...
Pagina 98
... Twas a good - sized room , dark and cheerful , but small . " Twas on a various street , diversified by houses and conservatory plants . The peasantry of the city passed to and fro on the fine pasturage be- tween the sidewalks . " Twas ...
... Twas a good - sized room , dark and cheerful , but small . " Twas on a various street , diversified by houses and conservatory plants . The peasantry of the city passed to and fro on the fine pasturage be- tween the sidewalks . " Twas ...
Pagina 104
... it . ' " That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
... it . ' " That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 105
O. Henry. high . ' Twas a long room , lit with smoky oil lamps . There was plenty of chairs , and a table at the back end . We set the phonograph on the table . Mel- linger was there , walking up and down , disturbed in his predicaments ...
O. Henry. high . ' Twas a long room , lit with smoky oil lamps . There was plenty of chairs , and a table at the back end . We set the phonograph on the table . Mel- linger was there , walking up and down , disturbed in his predicaments ...
Pagina 162
... Twas hard work . " Tis strainin ' to the back and makes corns on the hands . " " I didn't know you had ever lent your sword to an oppressed people , " murmured Atwood , from the grass . " I did , " said Clancy ; " and 162 Cabbages and ...
... Twas hard work . " Tis strainin ' to the back and makes corns on the hands . " " I didn't know you had ever lent your sword to an oppressed people , " murmured Atwood , from the grass . " I did , " said Clancy ; " and 162 Cabbages and ...
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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