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 19
... turned to a trident , the central prong ending at Alazan . Another branched off to Coralio ; the third penetrated to Solitas . Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora ...
... turned to a trident , the central prong ending at Alazan . Another branched off to Coralio ; the third penetrated to Solitas . Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora ...
Pagina 22
... turned from the main street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police ...
... turned from the main street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police ...
Pagina 30
... turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture- a half - page , badly printed repro- duction of a photograph of a vessel . Languidly in ...
... turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture- a half - page , badly printed repro- duction of a photograph of a vessel . Languidly in ...
Pagina 37
... turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief ...
... turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of his belief ...
Pagina 40
... back to his house whistling that finest and saddest love song , " La Golondrina . " At the door his tame monkey leaped down from his shelf , chattering briskly . The consul turned to his desk to 40 Cabbages and Kings.
... back to his house whistling that finest and saddest love song , " La Golondrina . " At the door his tame monkey leaped down from his shelf , chattering briskly . The consul turned to his desk to 40 Cabbages and Kings.
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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