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 19
... five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from - here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as ...
... five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from - here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as ...
Pagina 27
... five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by ...
... five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by ...
Pagina 28
... five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue ...
... five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Car- ibs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue ...
Pagina 51
... five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers . " 99 " Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to ...
... five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers . " 99 " Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to ...
Pagina 53
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
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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