Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews, 1916 - 312 pagine A 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. |
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Pagina 191
... Blythe stepped from the platform with the air of a prince leaving his canopied couch . He never quite lost that air , even at the lowest point of his fall . It is clear that the college of good breeding does not necessarily maintain a ...
... Blythe stepped from the platform with the air of a prince leaving his canopied couch . He never quite lost that air , even at the lowest point of his fall . It is clear that the college of good breeding does not necessarily maintain a ...
Pagina 192
... Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that separates a ...
... Blythe had reached rock bottom . Further descent seemed impossible . That last night's slumber in a public place had done for him . As long as he had had a roof to cover him there had remained , unbridged , the space that separates a ...
Pagina 193
... Blythe walked slowly up the street , keeping a watchful eye for any miracle that might drop manna upon him in his wilderness . As he passed the popu- lar eating house of Madama Vasquez , Madama's boarders were just sitting down to ...
... Blythe walked slowly up the street , keeping a watchful eye for any miracle that might drop manna upon him in his wilderness . As he passed the popu- lar eating house of Madama Vasquez , Madama's boarders were just sitting down to ...
Pagina 194
... Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and embarrassed . " Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were ...
... Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and embarrassed . " Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were ...
Pagina 195
... Blythe's vic- tims who had plunged his hand oftenest into his pocket to aid him . But now it seemed that Keogh , too , had fortified himself against further invasions . His curt greeting and the ominous light in his full , grey eye ...
... Blythe's vic- tims who had plunged his hand oftenest into his pocket to aid him . But now it seemed that Keogh , too , had fortified himself against further invasions . His curt greeting and the ominous light in his full , grey eye ...
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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 Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla