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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... Keogh and Clancy"—a nomenclature that seemed not to be indigenous to that tropical soil. The man in the door was Billy Keogh, scout of fortune and progress and latter-day rover of the Spanish Main. Tintypes and photographs were the ...
... Keogh and Clancy"—a nomenclature that seemed not to be indigenous to that tropical soil. The man in the door was Billy Keogh, scout of fortune and progress and latter-day rover of the Spanish Main. Tintypes and photographs were the ...
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... Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good ...
... Keogh's doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good ...
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... Keogh. "Read that, 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 ...
... Keogh. "Read that, 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 ...
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... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ' Fox - in - the - Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and ...
... Keogh . " You've got a fine sporting game mixed up in your head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ' Fox - in - the - Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and ...
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... Keogh. The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel. A jiggety-joggety journey it was ... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh. "What's the trouble, Billy?" asked ...
... Keogh. The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel. A jiggety-joggety journey it was ... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh. "What's the trouble, Billy?" asked ...
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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