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 113
... Miraflores . Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He ...
... Miraflores . Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He ...
Pagina 120
... President Miraflores . From this window when the rains forbade the open , and from the green and shady slopes of Goodwin's fruitful lands when the skies were smiling , his wife was wont to look upon that grave with a gentle sad- ness ...
... President Miraflores . From this window when the rains forbade the open , and from the green and shady slopes of Goodwin's fruitful lands when the skies were smiling , his wife was wont to look upon that grave with a gentle sad- ness ...
Pagina 123
... President Miraflores set out from San Mateo with one hundred thousand dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe ...
... President Miraflores set out from San Mateo with one hundred thousand dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe ...
Pagina 124
... President Miraflores decamped with any funds belonging to the treasury of this country , or to himself , or to any- one else , I saw no trace of it in the house or elsewhere , at that time or at any other . Does that statement cover the ...
... President Miraflores decamped with any funds belonging to the treasury of this country , or to himself , or to any- one else , I saw no trace of it in the house or elsewhere , at that time or at any other . Does that statement cover the ...
Pagina 125
... President in his flight must surely — " " I must interrupt you there , " interposed Good- win . " It is true that when I entered the hotel for the purpose of intercepting President Miraflores I found a lady there . I must beg of you to ...
... President in his flight must surely — " " I must interrupt you there , " interposed Good- win . " It is true that when I entered the hotel for the purpose of intercepting President Miraflores I found a lady there . I must beg of you to ...
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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