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 51
She ' s a tramp fruiter — made her last trip to New York , I believe . No ; she
brought no passengers . I saw her boat come ashore , and there was no one .
About the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they
arrive ...
She ' s a tramp fruiter — made her last trip to New York , I believe . No ; she
brought no passengers . I saw her boat come ashore , and there was no one .
About the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they
arrive ...
Pagina 90
He ' s going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot
president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job ' s over
now ; and I guess old Mellinger is glad . " “ Why does he disappear to music , like
Zo ...
He ' s going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot
president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job ' s over
now ; and I guess old Mellinger is glad . " “ Why does he disappear to music , like
Zo ...
Pagina 99
New York ? ' he says to me finally . 6 . Originally , and from time to time , ' I says . '
Hasn ' t it rubbed off yet ? ' 6 . It ' s simple , ' says he , when you know how . It ' s
the fit of the vest . They don ' t cut vests right anywhere else . Coats , maybe , but ...
New York ? ' he says to me finally . 6 . Originally , and from time to time , ' I says . '
Hasn ' t it rubbed off yet ? ' 6 . It ' s simple , ' says he , when you know how . It ' s
the fit of the vest . They don ' t cut vests right anywhere else . Coats , maybe , but ...
Pagina 103
Billy was my side - kicker in New York . There is a man who never knew what
crooked was . Here I am working Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money
on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this country . Everything ' s rotten . From
the ...
Billy was my side - kicker in New York . There is a man who never knew what
crooked was . Here I am working Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money
on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this country . Everything ' s rotten . From
the ...
Pagina 108
We ' ll remind him , says Henry , of the peanut - roaster on Thirty - fourth Street ,
New York . “ Henry stooped down and got a record from the basketful we ' d
brought , slid it in the phonograph , and started her off . It was a cornet solo , very
neat ...
We ' ll remind him , says Henry , of the peanut - roaster on Thirty - fourth Street ,
New York . “ Henry stooped down and got a record from the basketful we ' d
brought , slid it in the phonograph , and started her off . It was a cornet solo , very
neat ...
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A.L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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