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 133
... Company as a token of amicable relations and certain consummated deals - be- tween that company and the republic of Anchuria . The jest was carried to its end . A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted with chro- matic ...
... Company as a token of amicable relations and certain consummated deals - be- tween that company and the republic of Anchuria . The jest was carried to its end . A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted with chro- matic ...
Pagina 207
... company , and there's old Delgado no ; he wears sandals . And , oh , yes ; there's Madama Ortiz , ' what kapes the hotel ' — she had on a pair of red slippers at the baile the other night . And Miss Pasa , her daughter , that went to ...
... company , and there's old Delgado no ; he wears sandals . And , oh , yes ; there's Madama Ortiz , ' what kapes the hotel ' — she had on a pair of red slippers at the baile the other night . And Miss Pasa , her daughter , that went to ...
Pagina 258
... away from the horizon . He had but to speak a word to Geddie to find his credit negotiable for whatever goods he wanted from the store of Brannigan & Company . On the same day on which White arrived in New York Keogh , 258 XVI.
... away from the horizon . He had but to speak a word to Geddie to find his credit negotiable for whatever goods he wanted from the store of Brannigan & Company . On the same day on which White arrived in New York Keogh , 258 XVI.
Pagina 273
... Company had a habit of doing things that way in Anchuria . " I am exceedingly sorry- exceedingly sorry , " said the captain , " to see this occur . I place myself at your service , Mr. Maloney . What you need shall be furnished ...
... Company had a habit of doing things that way in Anchuria . " I am exceedingly sorry- exceedingly sorry , " said the captain , " to see this occur . I place myself at your service , Mr. Maloney . What you need shall be furnished ...
Pagina 278
... far adequate support . But the most impolitic of the administration's moves had been when it antagonized the Vesuvius Fruit Company , an organization plying twelve steam- ers and with a cash capital somewhat larger than An- 278 XVII.
... far adequate support . But the most impolitic of the administration's moves had been when it antagonized the Vesuvius Fruit Company , an organization plying twelve steam- ers and with a cash capital somewhat larger than An- 278 XVII.
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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