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 54
... trepanning which no listener had ever allowed him to conclude , and that he believed in brandy as a prophylactic ; and the spe- cial points of interest possessed by Dr. Gregg will have become exhausted . The doctor had dragged a chair ...
... trepanning which no listener had ever allowed him to conclude , and that he believed in brandy as a prophylactic ; and the spe- cial points of interest possessed by Dr. Gregg will have become exhausted . The doctor had dragged a chair ...
Pagina 61
... trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm ...
... trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm ...
Pagina 259
... that fall pertinent and diverting upon the ear . Atwood was gone - he of the hospitable back porch and ingenuous cunning . Dr. Gregg , with his trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano Dicky 259.
... that fall pertinent and diverting upon the ear . Atwood was gone - he of the hospitable back porch and ingenuous cunning . Dr. Gregg , with his trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano Dicky 259.
Pagina 260
O. Henry. trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano , always showing signs of immi- nent eruption , and was not to be considered in the ranks of those who might contribute to the ameliora- tion of ennui . The new ...
O. Henry. trepanning story smouldering within him , was a whiskered volcano , always showing signs of immi- nent eruption , and was not to be considered in the ranks of those who might contribute to the ameliora- tion of ennui . The new ...
Pagina 266
... trepanning story of Dr. Gregg is still referred to , in Coralio , as a mas- terpiece of lightning diplomacy . Many letters arrived , addressed to " Mr. Dicky Maloney , " or " Seņor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa ...
... trepanning story of Dr. Gregg is still referred to , in Coralio , as a mas- terpiece of lightning diplomacy . Many letters arrived , addressed to " Mr. Dicky Maloney , " or " Seņor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa ...
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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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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