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 11
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor ...
... trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of excitement . A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor ...
Pagina 13
... to the contiguities of shade from which curiosity had drawn it - the women to their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight " Fox - in - the - Morning " 13.
... to the contiguities of shade from which curiosity had drawn it - the women to their baking in the mud ovens under the orange - trees , or to the interminable combing of their long , straight " Fox - in - the - Morning " 13.
Pagina 21
... 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 sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
... 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 sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and ...
Pagina 34
... trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative ...
... trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba - tree rose almost to the clouds . The waving cocoanut palms on the beach flared their dec- orative ...
Pagina 48
... trees . " Mr. Geddie , the consul , will be sure to be there , ” said Goodwin . " He was very nearly drowned a few days ago while taking a swim in the sea , and the doctor has ordered him to remain indoors for some time . " Smith plowed ...
... trees . " Mr. Geddie , the consul , will be sure to be there , ” said Goodwin . " He was very nearly drowned a few days ago while taking a swim in the sea , and the doctor has ordered him to remain indoors for some time . " Smith plowed ...
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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