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 25
... drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? ” Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on Coralio's solitary billiard table . His plans were com ...
... drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? ” Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on Coralio's solitary billiard table . His plans were com ...
Pagina 52
... drinking shop of the proprietress , Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay P thick save where the fingers ...
... drinking shop of the proprietress , Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay P thick save where the fingers ...
Pagina 53
... drink or lodg- ing at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno . If they came not , why , then , they came not . Está bueno . As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious ...
... drink or lodg- ing at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno . If they came not , why , then , they came not . Está bueno . As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious ...
Pagina 55
O. Henry. keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising ...
O. Henry. keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising ...
Pagina 56
... drink , now ? anything they promise you . How did you come to Coralio , Mr. Smith ? I was not aware that any boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a ...
... drink , now ? anything they promise you . How did you come to Coralio , Mr. Smith ? I was not aware that any boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a ...
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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