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." |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 23
Pagina 23
... walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moon ...
... walls . A handsome , viva- cious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moon ...
Pagina 29
... wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the ...
... wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast time . Chanca , the Carib woman who cooked for him , was just serving the meal on the side of the ...
Pagina 52
... wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad ...
... wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun . Upon its upper bal- cony opened a central door and two windows con- taining broad ...
Pagina 54
... wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . " You're Dr. Gregg — is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin in ...
... wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught sight of Smith in his unusual and prismatic clothes . " You're Dr. Gregg — is that right ? " said Smith , feeling the dog's head pin in ...
Pagina 81
... walls— " figure - it - to - yourself ! " they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ( as you shall learn ) what became of the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms ...
... walls— " figure - it - to - yourself ! " they exclaim . But they cannot tell you in Coralio ( as you shall learn ) what became of the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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