Cabbages and KingsPhoemixx Classics Ebooks, 19 ago 2021 - 222 pagine Cabbages and Kings O. Henry - A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". |
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... Billy Keogh, scout of fortune and progress and latter-day rover of the Spanish Main. Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores. Outside the shop were set two ...
... Billy Keogh, scout of fortune and progress and latter-day rover of the Spanish Main. Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores. Outside the shop were set two ...
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... Billy," he said. "It's from Bob Englehart. Can you manage the cipher?" Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway, and carefully perused the telegram. "'Tis not a cipher," he said, finally. "'Tis what they call literature, and that's a ...
... Billy," he said. "It's from Bob Englehart. Can you manage the cipher?" Keogh sat in the other half of the doorway, and carefully perused the telegram. "'Tis not a cipher," he said, finally. "'Tis what they call literature, and that's a ...
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... Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in ...
... Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in ...
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... Billy," advised Goodwin. "We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight. I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet. Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ...
... Billy," advised Goodwin. "We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight. I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet. Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ...
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... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say ...
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood banana beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra orange Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Solitas Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town tree trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla