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 27
... Anchuria . There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine ...
... Anchuria . There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine ...
Pagina 57
... Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another chair to the ...
... Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another chair to the ...
Pagina 61
... away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying Smith 61.
... away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying Smith 61.
Pagina 64
... Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the headquarters of that citadel of war after nine o'clock , but Goodwin was always forgetting the minor ...
... Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come so near the headquarters of that citadel of war after nine o'clock , but Goodwin was always forgetting the minor ...
Pagina 65
... Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country , and to declare itself in power ...
... Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country , and to declare itself in power ...
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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