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 19
... tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of “ Fox - in - the ...
... tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of wild vegetation , the home of “ Fox - in - the ...
Pagina 26
... tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
... tropics a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn . So many thousand bunches of bananas , so many thousand oranges and cocoanuts , so many ounces of gold dust , pounds of rubber , coffee , indigo and sarsa- parilla ...
Pagina 33
... tropic nights with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing his ...
... tropic nights with all he was more than content . there was Paula Brannigan . Also , Geddie intended to marry Paula - if , of course , she would consent ; but he felt rather sure that she would do that . Somehow , he kept postponing his ...
Pagina 89
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory ...
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory ...
Pagina 112
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
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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