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 89
... passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return trip . Like a coquettish pigeon the little boat tacked on its Cupid's Exile Number Two 89.
... passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return trip . Like a coquettish pigeon the little boat tacked on its Cupid's Exile Number Two 89.
Pagina 91
... " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
... " I said my instincts of narrative were perplexed . Don't you believe it . It's an art I've acquired along with many other of the graces and sciences . " VI THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT " WHAT was this Cupid's Exile Number Two 91.
Pagina 181
... numbers . Let us accept our defeat like brave men and eat another banana . ' " Were you in the cause of liberty fightin ' , señor ? ' says the general , sheddin ' tears on the cargo . 66 " " To the last , ' says I. " " Twas I led the ...
... numbers . Let us accept our defeat like brave men and eat another banana . ' " Were you in the cause of liberty fightin ' , señor ? ' says the general , sheddin ' tears on the cargo . 66 " " To the last , ' says I. " " Twas I led the ...
Pagina 201
... numbers , " said Goodwin , facing Blythe squarely , " how much money do you owe in this town , not including the sums you have ' borrowed ' from me ? " " Five hundred - at a rough guess , " answered Blythe , lightly . " Go somewhere in ...
... numbers , " said Goodwin , facing Blythe squarely , " how much money do you owe in this town , not including the sums you have ' borrowed ' from me ? " " Five hundred - at a rough guess , " answered Blythe , lightly . " Go somewhere in ...
Pagina 208
... number of our citizens actu- ally without shoes at present . Besides the want above mentioned , there is also a crying need for a brewery , a college of higher mathe- matics , a coal yard , and a clean and 208 Cabbages and Kings.
... number of our citizens actu- ally without shoes at present . Besides the want above mentioned , there is also a crying need for a brewery , a college of higher mathe- matics , a coal yard , and a clean and 208 Cabbages and Kings.
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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