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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... running parallel to the beach became populated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch. Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and plaintively ...
... running parallel to the beach became populated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch. Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and plaintively ...
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... running too much to philology , Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied ... run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the - Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ...
... running too much to philology , Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied ... run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the - Morning ! ' Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ...
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... running away with it . Frank , did you ever see the ' bundle of muslin ' that His Excellency has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though ...
... running away with it . Frank , did you ever see the ' bundle of muslin ' that His Excellency has wrapped up and carried off ? " " Isabel Guilbert ? " said Goodwin , laughing . " No , I never did . From what I've heard of her , though ...
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... running along the beach—the Broadway of Coralio—were the larger stores, the government bodega and post- office, the cuartel, the rum-shops and the market place. On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan. It was a modern ...
... running along the beach—the Broadway of Coralio—were the larger stores, the government bodega and post- office, the cuartel, the rum-shops and the market place. On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan. It was a modern ...
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... -hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate. This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms, with a native-built gallery of poles, bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it.
... -hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate. This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms, with a native-built gallery of poles, bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it.
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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