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 23
... walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moon ...
... walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moon ...
Pagina 29
... wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the ...
... wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the ...
Pagina 52
... wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad ...
... wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad ...
Pagina 54
... wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . " You're Dr. Gregg - — is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin ...
... wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . " You're Dr. Gregg - — is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin ...
Pagina 81
... walls " figure - it - to - yourself ! " they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ( as you shall learn ) what became of the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms ...
... walls " figure - it - to - yourself ! " they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ( as you shall learn ) what became of the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms ...
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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