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
... Clancy " a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the ...
... Clancy " a nomenclature that seemed not to be in- digenous to that tropical soil . The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and photographs were the ...
Pagina 22
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the flying ...
... Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ques- tionable good luck of the flying ...
Pagina 161
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the carth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
... Clancy . Thus , in all the scorched and exotic places of the carth , Cau- casians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fulness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things . Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass ...
Pagina 162
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
... Clancy sat on the steps , smoking his short pipe . His mood was the gossip's ; the others were re- duced , by the humidity , to the state of disability de- sirable in an audience . Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and ...
Pagina 163
... Clancy , with seem- ing irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
... Clancy , with seem- ing irrelevance . " Why , off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic re- gions , " somebody answered , doubtfully . " I thought that was the cold one , " said Clancy , with a satisfied nod . " I'm always gettin ' the two ...
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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