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 4
... the coun- try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one - month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
... the coun- try a banana king , a rubber prince , a sarsaparilla , indigo , and mahogany baron . The Señorita Guil- bert , you will be told , married Señor Goodwin one - month after the president's death , thus , in the 4 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 32
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
... told him- self that he had conquered the distress that had sent him , a voluntary exile , to this far land of the lotus . He could never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had ...
Pagina 54
... . " 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 a 54 Cabbages and ...
... . " 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 a 54 Cabbages and ...
Pagina 73
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order — especially an American colony of cultured ...
... told me , " went on the lady , speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ; that there was a pleasing social order — especially an American colony of cultured ...
Pagina 91
... told you all about every man , woman and hitching post in Dalesburg . " " You shall hear it , " said Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of ...
... told you all about every man , woman and hitching post in Dalesburg . " " You shall hear it , " said Keogh . " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of ...
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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