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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... heard the news. I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla, and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire." As Goodwin rose, Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh. "What's the trouble, Billy ...
... heard the news. I'm going around now to see Dr. Zavalla, and start a man up the trail to cut the telegraph wire." As Goodwin rose, Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh. "What's the trouble, Billy ...
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... heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ...
... heard of her , though , I imagine that she wouldn't stick at anything to carry her point . Don't get romantic , Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ...
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... heard of Coralio. He knew that two men, at any rate, would have to read his report—some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office. Perhaps the typesticker would note the increase of commerce in ...
... heard of Coralio. He knew that two men, at any rate, would have to read his report—some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office. Perhaps the typesticker would note the increase of commerce in ...
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... heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote. Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else. But evidently ...
... heard of her through the dilatory correspondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote. Still he could not repress a little thrill of satisfaction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or anyone else. But evidently ...
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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