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 14
... Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent ...
... Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent ...
Pagina 15
... Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was ...
... Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was ...
Pagina 16
... Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel ...
... Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel ...
Pagina 17
... Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of ' it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese ...
... Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of ' it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese ...
Pagina 18
... Goodwin . " It won't do to let the goose and gander slip through our fingers , Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we ...
... Goodwin . " It won't do to let the goose and gander slip through our fingers , Billy ; their feathers are too valuable . Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the govern- ment at once ; but with the treasury empty we ...
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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