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 21
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
... Billy . Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They ...
Pagina 85
... Billy Keogh and Johnny seemed to conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign ...
... Billy Keogh and Johnny seemed to conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign ...
Pagina 89
... Billy . . . go - ing home - bye ! " The Andador was the sloop's destination . No doubt some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return ...
... Billy . . . go - ing home - bye ! " The Andador was the sloop's destination . No doubt some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return ...
Pagina 102
... Billy Ren- frow's café , corner of Thirty - fourth and 66 " God knows it , ' interrupts Mellinger , ' and if you'd told me you knew Billy Renfrow I'd have in- vented tons of ways of making you happy . Billy was my side - kicker in New ...
... Billy Ren- frow's café , corner of Thirty - fourth and 66 " God knows it , ' interrupts Mellinger , ' and if you'd told me you knew Billy Renfrow I'd have in- vented tons of ways of making you happy . Billy was my side - kicker in New ...
Pagina 104
... Billy Renfrow some day ; and that tightens my grip whenever I see a fat thing that I could corral just by winking one eye - and losing my graft . By , they can't monkey with me . They know it . What money I get I make honest and spend ...
... Billy Renfrow some day ; and that tightens my grip whenever I see a fat thing that I could corral just by winking one eye - and losing my graft . By , they can't monkey with me . They know it . What money I get I make honest and spend ...
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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