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 11
... street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The ...
... street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un 66 telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . come to anyone in Coralio . Telegrams do not often The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The ...
Pagina 12
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
O. Henry. main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
Pagina 13
... street , 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 ...
... street , 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 ...
Pagina 22
... street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks ...
... street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks ...
Pagina 23
... street running along the beach — the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . 66 On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard ...
... street running along the beach — the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . 66 On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard ...
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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