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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... PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT VII . MONEY MAZE 62 82 • · • 92 • · 113 • VIII . THE ADMIRAL . 130 IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM · 144 161 • • XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE · · . 189 XII . SHOES 204 • XIII . SHIPS 219 ...
... PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT VII . MONEY MAZE 62 82 • · • 92 • · 113 • VIII . THE ADMIRAL . 130 IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM · 144 161 • • XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE · · . 189 XII . SHOES 204 • XIII . SHIPS 219 ...
Pagina 90
... phonograph , " said Keogh . " I sold him that . Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward ...
... phonograph , " said Keogh . " I sold him that . Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward ...
Pagina 91
... Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
... Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
Pagina 92
... phonograph . " Me and Henry Horsecollar brought the first phonograph to this country . Henry was a quarter- breed , quarter - back Cherokee , educated East in the idioms of football , and West in contraband whisky , and a gentleman ...
... phonograph . " Me and Henry Horsecollar brought the first phonograph to this country . Henry was a quarter- breed , quarter - back Cherokee , educated East in the idioms of football , and West in contraband whisky , and a gentleman ...
Pagina 93
... phonograph scheme . He had $ 360 which came to him out of a land allotment in the reserva- tion . I had run down from Little Rock on account of a distressful scene I had witnessed on the street there . A man stood on a box and passed ...
... phonograph scheme . He had $ 360 which came to him out of a land allotment in the reserva- tion . I had run down from Little Rock on account of a distressful scene I had witnessed on the street there . A man stood on a box and passed ...
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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