Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine 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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Pagina 12
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
... Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores . Outside the shop were set ...
Pagina 16
... new government . Therefore it was exceeding necessary to " collar the main guy , ” and recapture the sinews of war and government . Goodwin handed the message to Keogh . " Read that , Billy , " he said . 16 Cabbages and Kings.
... new government . Therefore it was exceeding necessary to " collar the main guy , ” and recapture the sinews of war and government . Goodwin handed the message to Keogh . " Read that , Billy , " he said . 16 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 17
... Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of ' it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in ...
... Billy , " said Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of ' it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in ...
Pagina 18
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
... Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco ...
Pagina 20
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
... Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintypes tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla