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 18
... once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the coast to prevent their getting out of the country . " " By the mule - back ...
... once ; but with the treasury empty we'd stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the coast to prevent their getting out of the country . " " By the mule - back ...
Pagina 21
... once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a ...
... once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a ...
Pagina 23
... once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government ...
... once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena- the summer " White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government ...
Pagina 42
... once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? ” " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's rather more than half drownded . We seen him from ...
... once . " " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? ” " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's rather more than half drownded . We seen him from ...
Pagina 47
... once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and that he had come in a yacht . A meagre ...
... once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure present . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and that he had come in a yacht . A meagre ...
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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