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 48
... boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was ...
... boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The bottle , with its impotent message , was ...
Pagina 51
... boat come ashore , and there was no one . About the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they arrive ; and a passenger on one of them generally causes the whole town to turn out . If you are going to remain in ...
... boat come ashore , and there was no one . About the only exciting recreation we have here is watching steamers when they arrive ; and a passenger on one of them generally causes the whole town to turn out . If you are going to remain in ...
Pagina 56
... boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor's order . There was no dust on it . After they had drank twice Smith said ...
... boats except the Karlsefin had arrived for some days . " The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Ma- dama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor's order . There was no dust on it . After they had drank twice Smith said ...
Pagina 60
... boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment . There was in the atmosphere a hint of expectation , of waiting for something to occur , which was foreign to the air of Coralio . Like some passing bird of brilliant ...
... boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment . There was in the atmosphere a hint of expectation , of waiting for something to occur , which was foreign to the air of Coralio . Like some passing bird of brilliant ...
Pagina 63
... boat or sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced that no precau- tions ...
... boat or sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced that no precau- tions ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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.