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 25
... drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? " Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on Coralio's solitary billiard table . His plans were com ...
... drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? " Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on Coralio's solitary billiard table . His plans were com ...
Pagina 52
... drinking shop - of the proprietress , Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers ...
... drinking shop - of the proprietress , Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers ...
Pagina 53
... drink or lodging at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno . If they came not , why , then , they came not . Está bueno . As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious ...
... drink or lodging at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno . If they came not , why , then , they came not . Está bueno . As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious ...
Pagina 55
O. Henry. keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising quickly ...
O. Henry. keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising quickly ...
Pagina 56
... drink , now ? How did you come to Coralio , Mr. Smith ? I was not aware that any boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a bottle without waiting for the ...
... drink , now ? How did you come to Coralio , Mr. Smith ? I was not aware that any boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a bottle without waiting for the ...
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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