Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 92
... asked Johnny , with the impatience of the great public to whom tales are told . " " Tis contrary to art and philosophy to give you the information , " said Keogh , calmly . " The art of narrative consists in concealing from your ...
... asked Johnny , with the impatience of the great public to whom tales are told . " " Tis contrary to art and philosophy to give you the information , " said Keogh , calmly . " The art of narrative consists in concealing from your ...
Pagina 110
... asked . " I'm going to buck centre , ' says Henry , in his football idioms . There isn't a tackle in the lot of them . Follow me close , and rush the game . ' " Then that cultured Red Man exhaled an ar- rangement of sounds with his ...
... asked . " I'm going to buck centre , ' says Henry , in his football idioms . There isn't a tackle in the lot of them . Follow me close , and rush the game . ' " Then that cultured Red Man exhaled an ar- rangement of sounds with his ...
Pagina 118
... He has come to inquire about the lost money , has he not ? " asked Mrs. Goodwin , going on with her sketch . " A good guess ! " acknowledged Goodwin . " He has been holding an inquisition among the natives for three 118 Cabbages and Kings.
... He has come to inquire about the lost money , has he not ? " asked Mrs. Goodwin , going on with her sketch . " A good guess ! " acknowledged Goodwin . " He has been holding an inquisition among the natives for three 118 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 119
... Coralio . " " Do you think that this man they have sent sus- pects you ? " she asked , with a little pucker of her brows . " He'd better not , " said the American , carelessly . " It's lucky that no one caught a sight of Money Maze 119.
... Coralio . " " Do you think that this man they have sent sus- pects you ? " she asked , with a little pucker of her brows . " He'd better not , " said the American , carelessly . " It's lucky that no one caught a sight of Money Maze 119.
Pagina 127
... asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , “ why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted to see you - well , this has the preference . " He gulped down his ...
... asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , “ why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted to see you - well , this has the preference . " He gulped down his ...
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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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
Brani popolari
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.