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 20
... heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire . " As Goodwin rose , Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble ...
... heard the news . I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire . " As Goodwin rose , Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . " What's the trouble ...
Pagina 21
... heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on ...
... heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on ...
Pagina 26
... heard of Coralio . He knew that two men , at any rate , would have to read his report some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office . Per- haps the typesticker would note the increase of com ...
... heard of Coralio . He knew that two men , at any rate , would have to read his report some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office . Per- haps the typesticker would note the increase of com ...
Pagina 27
... heard the hoarse notes of a steamer's siren . Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to ...
... heard the hoarse notes of a steamer's siren . Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to ...
Pagina 32
... heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else . But evidently ...
... heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else . But evidently ...
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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