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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... banana king, a rubber prince, a sarsaparilla, indigo, and mahogany baron. The Seņorita Guilbert, you will be told, married Seņor Goodwin one month after the president's death, thus, in the very moment when Fortune had ceased to smile ...
... banana king, a rubber prince, a sarsaparilla, indigo, and mahogany baron. The Seņorita Guilbert, you will be told, married Seņor Goodwin one month after the president's death, thus, in the very moment when Fortune had ceased to smile ...
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... bananas and cane and orange groves. The rest was a riot of wild vegetation, the home of monkeys, tapirs, jaguars, alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects. Where no road was cut a serpent could scarcely make its way through the ...
... bananas and cane and orange groves. The rest was a riot of wild vegetation, the home of monkeys, tapirs, jaguars, alligators and prodigious reptiles and insects. Where no road was cut a serpent could scarcely make its way through the ...
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