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 4
... Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast ...
... Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the souvenir hundred thou- sand , dropped anchor on this stagnant coast ...
Pagina 67
... señorita a ladee of so much beautee ! ah , Dios ! " - " All right , Estebán , " said Goodwin . " It's very lucky that you happened along with your tonsorial information . The new administration will be likely to remember you for this ...
... señorita a ladee of so much beautee ! ah , Dios ! " - " All right , Estebán , " said Goodwin . " It's very lucky that you happened along with your tonsorial information . The new administration will be likely to remember you for this ...
Pagina 69
... señorita of suffi- cient handsomeness . To their rooms they have as- cended , not desiring the to - eat nor the to - drink . Two rooms Numero 9 and Numero 10. " - " I was expecting that gentleman and that lady , " said Goodwin . " I ...
... señorita of suffi- cient handsomeness . To their rooms they have as- cended , not desiring the to - eat nor the to - drink . Two rooms Numero 9 and Numero 10. " - " I was expecting that gentleman and that lady , " said Goodwin . " I ...
Pagina 115
... señorita of much beauty that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried - that I did not see . " - & The comandante and other officers gave testi- mony that they had been awakened ...
... señorita of much beauty that I could see even in so small a light . But the money , señor , or the thing in which it was carried - that I did not see . " - & The comandante and other officers gave testi- mony that they had been awakened ...
Pagina 123
... Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late President's tastes would have permitted him to aban- don ...
... Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late President's tastes would have permitted him to aban- don ...
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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