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 11
... beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down ...
... beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down ...
Pagina 23
... 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 wooden ...
... 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 wooden ...
Pagina 27
... beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to ...
... beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the steamer , which had been boarded and inspected according to ...
Pagina 29
... beach — about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed ...
... beach — about a third of the popula- tion of the town - laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed ...
Pagina 34
... beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost quiescent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan ...
... beach flared their dec- orative green leaves against the slate of an almost quiescent sea . His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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