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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Risultati 6-10 di 16
Pagina 141
... Caribs were waiting they sprang up and saluted , as he had drilled them to do . " Come , muchachos , " said the admiral ; " it seems that the government is poor . It had no money to give us . We will earn what we need to live upon ...
... Caribs were waiting they sprang up and saluted , as he had drilled them to do . " Come , muchachos , " said the admiral ; " it seems that the government is poor . It had no money to give us . We will earn what we need to live upon ...
Pagina 148
... Caribs , rowed toward the left bank . The large man stood near the water's brink , waist deep in the curling vines . As he gazed upon the scarecrow figure in the stern of the dory a sprightly interest beamed upon his mobile face ...
... Caribs , rowed toward the left bank . The large man stood near the water's brink , waist deep in the curling vines . As he gazed upon the scarecrow figure in the stern of the dory a sprightly interest beamed upon his mobile face ...
Pagina 150
... Caribs prepared a meal , to which the three passengers of El Nacional set themselves with fam- ished delight . About sunset , as was its custom , the breeze veered and swept back from the mountains , cool and steady , bringing a taste ...
... Caribs prepared a meal , to which the three passengers of El Nacional set themselves with fam- ished delight . About sunset , as was its custom , the breeze veered and swept back from the mountains , cool and steady , bringing a taste ...
Pagina 151
... miral stood , silent , at the tiller ; the Caribs , like black panthers , held the sheets , leaping noiselessly at his short commands . The three passengers were watch- ing intently the sea before them , and when at The Flag Paramount 151.
... miral stood , silent , at the tiller ; the Caribs , like black panthers , held the sheets , leaping noiselessly at his short commands . The three passengers were watch- ing intently the sea before them , and when at The Flag Paramount 151.
Pagina 155
... Caribs made fast the sheets they held , and slipped down the hatchway into the hold of the sloop . When the last one ... Carib lengua . So , I understood your order . Perhaps now you will ” He cut short his words , for he heard the dull ...
... Caribs made fast the sheets they held , and slipped down the hatchway into the hold of the sloop . When the last one ... Carib lengua . So , I understood your order . Perhaps now you will ” He cut short his words , for he heard the dull ...
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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