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 7
... tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere . Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frown- ing crags where formerly rang the cries of pirates ' victims ; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and ...
... tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere . Now to cause laughter to echo from those lavish jungles and frown- ing crags where formerly rang the cries of pirates ' victims ; to lay aside pike and cutlass and attack with quip and ...
Pagina 9
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . ally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pridefully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights of the ...
... tropics from their centuries ' sleep . ally he wears a shamrock , which he matches pridefully against the extravagant palms ; and it is he who has driven Melpomene to the wings , and set Comedy to dancing before the footlights of the ...
Pagina 19
... five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
... five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with " Fox - in - the - Morning " 19.
Pagina 26
... tropics -a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
... tropics -a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
Pagina 33
... tropic ― nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
... tropic ― nights - with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing ...
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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