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 9
... there is a little tale to tell of many things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
... there is a little tale to tell of many things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
Pagina 13
... There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with ...
... There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with ...
Pagina 15
... There was always a revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours . There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores ...
... There was always a revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the ad- herents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours . There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores ...
Pagina 19
... There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from - here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the ... there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
... There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from - here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the ... there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
Pagina 21
... there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he ...
... there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " but " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he ...
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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