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 26
... chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the ...
... chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the ...
Pagina 29
... chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast ...
... chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast ...
Pagina 30
... chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture a half - page , badly printed repro ...
... chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture a half - page , badly printed repro ...
Pagina 31
... the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
... the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
Pagina 37
... chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there ...
... chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there ...
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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