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 8
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . That For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting ...
O. Henry. ant to do in the shade of the lemon - trees on that coast that is curved like lips set for smiling . That For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting ...
Pagina 11
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor ...
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : Busca el Señor ...
Pagina 14
O. Henry. their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his ...
O. Henry. their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight hair ; the men to their cigarettes and gossip in the cantinas . Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his ...
Pagina 21
... trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
... trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
Pagina 34
... trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative ...
... trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative ...
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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