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 3
... head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they ...
... head . Some one has burned upon the headstone with a hot iron this inscription : RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES Y MIRAFLORES PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE ANCHURIA QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS 3 It is characteristic of this buoyant people that they ...
Pagina 4
... head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the ...
... head rather than give up the funds , and , in conse- quence , the Señorita Guilbert . They will relate further that Doña Isabel , her adventurous bark of fortune shoaled by the simultaneous loss of her dis- tinguished admirer and the ...
Pagina 18
... head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ' Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo ...
... head with ' All Around the Rosebush . ' The spirit of ' Fox - in - the- Morning ' is opposed to the holding of hands . I'll tell you how it's played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo ...
Pagina 22
... of negroes from Jamaica and the West India islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros 22 Cabbages and Kings.
... of negroes from Jamaica and the West India islands . A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros 22 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 54
... head pin in his tie . " The constable -I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have ...
... head pin in his tie . " The constable -I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have ...
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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