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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O. Henry. The time has come , " the Walrus said , 66 To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER " Fox -
O. Henry. The time has come , " the Walrus said , 66 To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER " Fox -
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... • . 189 XII . SHOES · 204 XIII . SHIPS 219 XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS . 233 XV . DICKY • 258 XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII . Two RECALLS XVIII . THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE 278 • 293 • 307 THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in.
... • . 189 XII . SHOES · 204 XIII . SHIPS 219 XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS . 233 XV . DICKY • 258 XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII . Two RECALLS XVIII . THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE 278 • 293 • 307 THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in.
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... shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Per- Add to these a little love and counterplotting , and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars — dollars warmed no ...
... shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Per- Add to these a little love and counterplotting , and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars — dollars warmed no ...
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... shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the coast to prevent their getting out of the ...
... shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the coast to prevent their getting out of the ...
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... shoes and went outside . Just landing from one of the Valhalla's boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three sailors from the fruiter . " Go up , Simon , " called the mate , " and find Dr ...
... shoes and went outside . Just landing from one of the Valhalla's boats was the third mate of that vessel , who was an acquaintance of Si- mon's , and three sailors from the fruiter . " Go up , Simon , " called the mate , " and find Dr ...
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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