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
... stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to ...
... stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to ...
Pagina 15
... stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a ...
... stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was near a ...
Pagina 41
... stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it ...
... stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it ...
Pagina 52
... stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe ...
... stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe ...
Pagina 65
... stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country ...
... stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country ...
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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