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 14
... capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the telegram he had sent . It had been his ...
... capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the telegram he had sent . It had been his ...
Pagina 16
... capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been entertained by the president at ...
... capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been entertained by the president at ...
Pagina 19
... capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety - joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless precipices ...
... capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety - joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless precipices ...
Pagina 20
... capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and , besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the ...
... capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and , besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the ...
Pagina 25
... of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was 25 only twenty - four ; and he had not been II III SMITH 99 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
... of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was 25 only twenty - four ; and he had not been II III SMITH 99 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
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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