Cabbages and KingsA 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 194
Madama was serving ; she turned her shy , stolid , melancholy gaze for a moment
out the window ; she saw Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and
embarrassed . “ Beelzebub ” owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once
...
Madama was serving ; she turned her shy , stolid , melancholy gaze for a moment
out the window ; she saw Blythe , and her expression turned more shy and
embarrassed . “ Beelzebub ” owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once
...
Pagina 199
You will excuse the pride with which I state that fact ; but it was quite a feat for me
to attain that desirable state . Somebody had left a cot out under the orange trees
in the yard of Madama Ortiz's hotel . I stepped over the wall , laid down upon it ...
You will excuse the pride with which I state that fact ; but it was quite a feat for me
to attain that desirable state . Somebody had left a cot out under the orange trees
in the yard of Madama Ortiz's hotel . I stepped over the wall , laid down upon it ...
Pagina 202
I was asleep all the time on the cot under Madama Ortiz's orange trees ; and I
shake off the dust of Coralio forever . I'll play fair . No more of the lotus Your
proposition is 0. K. You're a good fellow , Goodwin ; and I let you off light . I'll
agree to ...
I was asleep all the time on the cot under Madama Ortiz's orange trees ; and I
shake off the dust of Coralio forever . I'll play fair . No more of the lotus Your
proposition is 0. K. You're a good fellow , Goodwin ; and I let you off light . I'll
agree to ...
Pagina 207
And , oh , yes ; there's Madama Ortiz , ' what kapes the hotel — she had on a pair
of red kid slippers at the baile the other night . And Miss Pasa , her daughter , that
went to school in the States — she brought back some civilized notions in the ...
And , oh , yes ; there's Madama Ortiz , ' what kapes the hotel — she had on a pair
of red kid slippers at the baile the other night . And Miss Pasa , her daughter , that
went to school in the States — she brought back some civilized notions in the ...
Pagina 261
... day and night with the comandante , the collector of customs , the Jefe Politico
and other gay dogs among the native officials . One day Dicky saw Pasa , the
daughter of Madama Dicky 261.
... day and night with the comandante , the collector of customs , the Jefe Politico
and other gay dogs among the native officials . One day Dicky saw Pasa , the
daughter of Madama Dicky 261.
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | l'Universitā della Virginia |
| Digitalizzato | 4 apr 2011 |
| Lunghezza | 310 pagine |
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