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 13
... smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for ...
... smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for ...
Pagina 24
... smoking on his back porch and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " -- " He isn't grumpy , " said Paula Brannigan , im- pulsively , " when he " But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her ...
... smoking on his back porch and there's no other place available that is cool enough . " -- " He isn't grumpy , " said Paula Brannigan , im- pulsively , " when he " But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her ...
Pagina 25
... smoke on the much coveted porch , had found him so absorbed in his work that he departed after roundly abusing the consul for his lack of hospitality . 66 " I shall complain to the civil service department , " said Goodwin ; - " or is ...
... smoke on the much coveted porch , had found him so absorbed in his work that he departed after roundly abusing the consul for his lack of hospitality . 66 " I shall complain to the civil service department , " said Goodwin ; - " or is ...
Pagina 34
... smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore ...
... smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore ...
Pagina 35
... smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the ...
... smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the ...
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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