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 5
... light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio ...
... light opera captured the mature president's fancy , or to her share in that statesman's downfall and mal- feasance , the Latin shrug of the shoulder would be your only answer and rebuttal . What prejudices there were in Coralio ...
Pagina 23
... light . " Good evening , Miss Paula , " said Goodwin , taking off his hat , with his ready smile . There was little dif- ' ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- tation ...
... light . " Good evening , Miss Paula , " said Goodwin , taking off his hat , with his ready smile . There was little dif- ' ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- tation ...
Pagina 37
... light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of ...
... light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by Ida ; and that , to the best of ...
Pagina 39
... light and frivolous about it , if not actually contemptuous . The thought stirred his pride and subdued what- ever emotions had been resurrected by the finding of the bottle . Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed ...
... light and frivolous about it , if not actually contemptuous . The thought stirred his pride and subdued what- ever emotions had been resurrected by the finding of the bottle . Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed ...
Pagina 46
... light buff , clean- cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel ho- vered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uniform came ashore , and a stocky - 46 Cabbages ...
... light buff , clean- cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful vessel ho- vered off shore , see - sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel . A swift boat manned by a crew in uniform came ashore , and a stocky - 46 Cabbages ...
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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