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 66
... minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . " So , then , their arrangements for sailing have yet to be made . " At ...
... minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . " So , then , their arrangements for sailing have yet to be made . " At ...
Pagina 93
... were only kickers . Hey ? Why , empty cases with one of them horny black bugs that fly around electric lights in ' em . Thèm bugs kick off minutes and seconds industrious and beautiful . So , this man The Phonograph and the Graft 93.
... were only kickers . Hey ? Why , empty cases with one of them horny black bugs that fly around electric lights in ' em . Thèm bugs kick off minutes and seconds industrious and beautiful . So , this man The Phonograph and the Graft 93.
Pagina 102
... minutes . There isn't big money in it , but it's a sure thing , and lets a man sleep of nights . ' " Thus Homer P. Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : " Boys , I'm to ...
... minutes . There isn't big money in it , but it's a sure thing , and lets a man sleep of nights . ' " Thus Homer P. Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : " Boys , I'm to ...
Pagina 110
... minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters , where Mel- linger had things his own way . A colonel and a battalion of bare - toed infantry turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us , but the ...
... minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters , where Mel- linger had things his own way . A colonel and a battalion of bare - toed infantry turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us , but the ...
Pagina 117
... minutes . crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn- ings and plants , and entered a long room looking upon the sea in the opposite wing of the house . The broad jalousies were opened wide , and the ocean breeze flowed in ...
... minutes . crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn- ings and plants , and entered a long room looking upon the sea in the opposite wing of the house . The broad jalousies were opened wide , and the ocean breeze flowed in ...
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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