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 39
... followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of ...
... followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of ...
Pagina 60
... to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree , 60 Cabbages and Kings.
... to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree , 60 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 65
... followed at increased speed , but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth . The American was too broad to feel the instinct of the detective . He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and ...
... followed at increased speed , but without any of the artful tactics that are so dear to the heart of the sleuth . The American was too broad to feel the instinct of the detective . He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and ...
Pagina 71
... followed it and rested upon it with icy and significant concentration . Apparently she had not heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet ...
... followed it and rested upon it with icy and significant concentration . Apparently she had not heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet ...
Pagina 78
... followed , and some one swept him aside and struggled into the room of the fallen man . A desolation , thought Goodwin , greater than that derived from the loss of cavalier and gold must have been in the heart of the enchantress to have ...
... followed , and some one swept him aside and struggled into the room of the fallen man . A desolation , thought Goodwin , greater than that derived from the loss of cavalier and gold must have been in the heart of the enchantress to have ...
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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