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 28
... crew would be- come doubly vigilant and wary . At night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found ...
... crew would be- come doubly vigilant and wary . At night a sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and drygoods in Coralio would be found ...
Pagina 38
... crew had mutinied and imprisoned the passengers below , and the message was one begging for succour ! But , premising such an improbable outrage , would the agitated captives have taken the pains to fill four pages of note - paper with ...
... crew had mutinied and imprisoned the passengers below , and the message was one begging for succour ! But , premising such an improbable outrage , would the agitated captives have taken the pains to fill four pages of note - paper with ...
Pagina 46
... engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky - built man 46 Cabbages and Kings.
... engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky - built man 46 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 54
... crew and passengers of every vessel leaving Coralio for preliminary symptoms . The duties were light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by ...
... crew and passengers of every vessel leaving Coralio for preliminary symptoms . The duties were light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by ...
Pagina 60
... crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment ...
... crew . Not far away in a pulperia on the shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment ...
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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