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 29
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
Pagina 36
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought ...
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought ...
Pagina 37
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding ...
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding ...
Pagina 39
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous seņoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the ...
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous seņoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the ...
Pagina 40
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
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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