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
... 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- pleted for the ...
... 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- pleted for the ...
Pagina 87
... kind you are acquainted with , " answered the ex - consul . " There is no such art here as agri- culture . There never was a plow or a reaper within the boundaries of Anchuria . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul ...
... kind you are acquainted with , " answered the ex - consul . " There is no such art here as agri- culture . There never was a plow or a reaper within the boundaries of Anchuria . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul ...
Pagina 90
... kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest . 1 " I'm no disseminator of narratives , " said Keogh ...
... kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest . 1 " I'm no disseminator of narratives , " said Keogh ...
Pagina 92
... whisky , and a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways ; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little man about five foot five , or five foot 92 VII.
... whisky , and a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways ; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little man about five foot five , or five foot 92 VII.
Pagina 96
... and no change . " Then we got the consul full of red wine , and struck him for a horoscope . He was a thin , young- ish kind of man , I should say past fifty , sort of French - Irish in his affections , and puffed up 96 Cabbages and Kings.
... and no change . " Then we got the consul full of red wine , and struck him for a horoscope . He was a thin , young- ish kind of man , I should say past fifty , sort of French - Irish in his affections , and puffed up 96 Cabbages and Kings.
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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