Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 227
... Dalesburg was to be decorated after the wedding . On the next morning Johnny confessed to Mr. Hemstetter . The shoe merchant put on his specta- cles , and said through them : " You strike me as be- ing a most extraordinary young scamp ...
... Dalesburg was to be decorated after the wedding . On the next morning Johnny confessed to Mr. Hemstetter . The shoe merchant put on his specta- cles , and said through them : " You strike me as be- ing a most extraordinary young scamp ...
Pagina 231
... Dales- burg that wasn't busy pickin ' ' em for a month . I hired these ships to bring ' em over . Everybody thought I was crazy . Now , you can have this lot for fifteen cents a pound , delivered on land . And if you want more I guess ...
... Dales- burg that wasn't busy pickin ' ' em for a month . I hired these ships to bring ' em over . Everybody thought I was crazy . Now , you can have this lot for fifteen cents a pound , delivered on land . And if you want more I guess ...
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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