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 54
... Gregg will have become exhausted . The doctor had dragged a chair to the sidewalk . He was coatless , and he leaned back against the wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught ...
... Gregg will have become exhausted . The doctor had dragged a chair to the sidewalk . He was coatless , and he leaned back against the wall and smoked , while he stroked his beard . Surprise came into his pale blue eyes when he caught ...
Pagina 55
... Gregg , rising quickly . " I find that as a prophylactic a little brandy is almost a necessity in this climate . " As they turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly up and addressed the doc- tor in ...
... Gregg , rising quickly . " I find that as a prophylactic a little brandy is almost a necessity in this climate . " As they turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly up and addressed the doc- tor in ...
Pagina 57
... Gregg ; " a man of travel and experience . Your decision in a matter of ethics and , no doubt , on the points of equity , ability and professional probity should be of value . I would be glad if you will listen to the history of a case ...
... Gregg ; " a man of travel and experience . Your decision in a matter of ethics and , no doubt , on the points of equity , ability and professional probity should be of value . I would be glad if you will listen to the history of a case ...
Pagina 61
... Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them ...
... Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them ...
Pagina 161
... Gregg , through the prestige of his whiskers and as a bribe against the relation of his imminent professional tales , was conceded the ham- mock that was swung between the door jamb and a calabash - tree . Keogh had moved out upon the ...
... Gregg , through the prestige of his whiskers and as a bribe against the relation of his imminent professional tales , was conceded the ham- mock that was swung between the door jamb and a calabash - tree . Keogh had moved out upon the ...
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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