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 3
... President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars ...
... President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars ...
Pagina 4
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he ...
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing po- litical party in Coralio , he ...
Pagina 5
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
... president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to ...
Pagina 6
... President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his ...
... President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his ...
Pagina 7
... President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life ...
... President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life ...
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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