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 5
... natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district ...
... natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district ...
Pagina 11
... native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was ...
... native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was ...
Pagina 13
... natives was drowned and silenced . 66 Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with ...
... natives was drowned and silenced . 66 Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with ...
Pagina 22
... and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India the bell islands . A few structures raised their heads 22 Cabbages and Kings.
... and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India the bell islands . A few structures raised their heads 22 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 28
... native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and ...
... native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and ...
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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