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 3
... carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a ...
... carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a ...
Pagina 8
... carry on the work . The hucksters of Germany , France , and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters . Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways 8 Cabbages and King's.
... carry on the work . The hucksters of Germany , France , and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters . Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways 8 Cabbages and King's.
Pagina 21
... carried off ? " 6 " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I ...
... carried off ? " 6 " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I ...
Pagina 33
... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages . He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent , but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek . The union The Lotus and the Bottle 33.
Pagina 41
... carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still upon the beach , smoking and ...
... carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still upon the beach , smoking 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