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 46
... painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky ...
... painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel hovered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uni- form came ashore , and a stocky ...
Pagina 77
... painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall , elderly , dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the ...
... painted her ? A noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall , elderly , dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the ...
Pagina 100
... " Boys , ' said he , " I've deceived you . You think I'm a painted butterfly ; but in fact I'm the hardest worked man in this country . Ten years ago I landed on its shores ; and two years ago on 100 Cabbages and Kings.
... " Boys , ' said he , " I've deceived you . You think I'm a painted butterfly ; but in fact I'm the hardest worked man in this country . Ten years ago I landed on its shores ; and two years ago on 100 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 103
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
... paint off the government property . That's why I'm down here now in this mildewed coast town . The governor of the district and his crew are plotting to uprise . I've got every one of their names , and they're invited to listen to the ...
Pagina 139
... crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in The Admiral 139.
... crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful of brilliant parrot's plumes in The Admiral 139.
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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