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 15
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
... lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a dissolution from another cause than that of a revolution , and now ...
Pagina 29
... the side of the gallery facing the sea- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
... the side of the gallery facing the sea- a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
Pagina 31
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
... lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous presumption that was demanded of him by his readers , had concocted a ro- mance suited to their palates . He bracketed ...
Pagina 32
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re ...
... land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re ...
Pagina 34
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
... land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost qui- escent sea . His senses ...
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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