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 4
... the coun- try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... the coun- try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 7
... told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will be made plain Columbia Detective And , for a ...
... told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and dreamy inaction ? The underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will be made plain Columbia Detective And , for a ...
Pagina 32
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
Pagina 54
... I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 84 Cabbages and Kings.
... I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple - trees . Come inside and have 84 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 73
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order - especially an American colony of cultured ...
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order - especially an American colony of cultured ...
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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