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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... carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered. For a real, a boy will show you his grave. It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove ...
... carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered. For a real, a boy will show you his grave. It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove ...
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... carry on the work. The hucksters of Germany, France, and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters. Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting- rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions. The little opéra ...
... carry on the work. The hucksters of Germany, France, and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters. Gentleman adventurers throng the waiting- rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions. The little opéra ...
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... carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I ...
... carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I ...
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... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages. He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent, but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek. The union of the Irish and the Spanish had ...
... carried on a lively trade with the interior towns and villages. He had married a native lady of high Castilian descent, but with a tinge of Indian brown showing through her olive cheek. The union of the Irish and the Spanish had ...
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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