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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... play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys. And with these changes comes also the small adventurer, with empty pockets to fill, light of heart, busy ...
... play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys. And with these changes comes also the small adventurer, with empty pockets to fill, light of heart, busy ...
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... played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the - Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' They say : ' How ...
... played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the - Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' They say : ' How ...
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... play. The consul was interested in his report. He was only twenty- four; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics—a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn. So ...
... play. The consul was interested in his report. He was only twenty- four; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics—a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn. So ...
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... played coyly and insinuatingly upon the strings of "on dit" and "Madame Rumour" and "a little bird" and "no one would be surprised," and ended with congratulations. Geddie, having finished his breakfast, took his papers to the edge of ...
... played coyly and insinuatingly upon the strings of "on dit" and "Madame Rumour" and "a little bird" and "no one would be surprised," and ended with congratulations. Geddie, having finished his breakfast, took his papers to the edge of ...
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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