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 140
... pesos ? Mira ! you will see a revolution in this country very soon . A good sign of it is when the government calls all the time for pesos , pesos , pesos , and pays none out . " Felipe left the collector's office with a look almost of ...
... pesos ? Mira ! you will see a revolution in this country very soon . A good sign of it is when the government calls all the time for pesos , pesos , pesos , and pays none out . " Felipe left the collector's office with a look almost of ...
Pagina 154
... pesos in of the Estados Unidos money more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years . " - Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand . The admiral gave no heed to the words or the movement . Braced against ...
... pesos in of the Estados Unidos money more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years . " - Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand . The admiral gave no heed to the words or the movement . Braced against ...
Pagina 179
... pesos , ' repeats the little man . ' Five dol- lee , you give ? ' " " Twas not such a bad little man . He had hesi- tations at first , sayin ' that passengers leavin ' the country had to have papers and passports , but at last he took ...
... pesos , ' repeats the little man . ' Five dol- lee , you give ? ' " " Twas not such a bad little man . He had hesi- tations at first , sayin ' that passengers leavin ' the country had to have papers and passports , but at last he took ...
Pagina 194
... pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but cool were the glances they cast ...
... pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but cool were the glances they cast ...
Pagina 198
... that I was still virtuous though under heavy pressure . The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty - eight cents . Let's talk business . I am the villain in the third act ; and I must 198 Cabbages and Kings.
... that I was still virtuous though under heavy pressure . The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty - eight cents . Let's talk business . I am the villain in the third act ; and I must 198 Cabbages and Kings.
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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