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
... hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is ...
... hundred thou- sand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration , was never afterward recovered . For a real , a boy will show you his grave . It is ...
Pagina 4
... hundred thousand unfound , though greatly coveted , the hue and cry went no further than that . To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to ...
... hundred thousand unfound , though greatly coveted , the hue and cry went no further than that . To the stranger or the guest the people of Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to ...
Pagina 21
... hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the ...
... hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the ...
Pagina 30
... the florid headlines of the column next to the picture . Yes ; he was not mistaken . The engraving was of the eight - hundred - ton yacht Idalia , belonging to " that prince of good fellows , Midas of the 30 Cabbages and Kings.
... the florid headlines of the column next to the picture . Yes ; he was not mistaken . The engraving was of the eight - hundred - ton yacht Idalia , belonging to " that prince of good fellows , Midas of the 30 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 52
... hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad jalousies instead of sashes . - The lower floor communicated by two doorways with the narrow ...
... hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad jalousies instead of sashes . - The lower floor communicated by two doorways with the narrow ...
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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