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 62
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed hardly likely to fail . Dr. Zavalla himself had gone to the port of Alazan to establish a guard at that point ...
O. Henry. IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed hardly likely to fail . Dr. Zavalla himself had gone to the port of Alazan to establish a guard at that point ...
Pagina 67
... President Miraflores be- fore ? " asked Goodwin . " But once , " answered Estebán . " He is tall ; and he had weeskers , verree black and sufficient . " " Was anyone else present when you shaved him ? " " An old Indian woman , Señor ...
... President Miraflores be- fore ? " asked Goodwin . " But once , " answered Estebán . " He is tall ; and he had weeskers , verree black and sufficient . " " Was anyone else present when you shaved him ? " " An old Indian woman , Señor ...
Pagina 77
... President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber , Estebán , had prepared Goodwin for the change . The man stumbled in from the dark room , his ...
... President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber , Estebán , had prepared Goodwin for the change . The man stumbled in from the dark room , his ...
Pagina 79
... president by both Good- win and the barber Estebán . On the next morning messages began to come over the mended ... Miraflores Caught 79.
... president by both Good- win and the barber Estebán . On the next morning messages began to come over the mended ... Miraflores Caught 79.
Pagina 80
O. Henry. populace quickly effaced the interest belonging to the unfortunate Miraflores ... president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio ... president placed the wooden slab at his head , and burned the ...
O. Henry. populace quickly effaced the interest belonging to the unfortunate Miraflores ... president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio ... president placed the wooden slab at his head , and burned 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