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
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
... coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a ...
Pagina 4
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
... coast , await- ing a rising tide . They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the ...
Pagina 5
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
... coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district , herself , who was of the proud Castilian family of Monteleon y Dolorosa de los Santos y Mendez , feels honoured to unfold her nap- kin with olive - hued , ringed hands at the ...
Pagina 8
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
... coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by ...
Pagina 11
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
... coast . It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band . Be- hind it , and seeming almost to topple , imminent , above it , rose the sea - following range of the Cordil- leras . In front the sea was spread , a smiling jailer , but ...
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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