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 80
They will relate to you how the new government sifted the towns and raked the
roads to find the valise containing Anchuria ' s surplus capital , which the
president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Seņor
Goodwin ...
They will relate to you how the new government sifted the towns and raked the
roads to find the valise containing Anchuria ' s surplus capital , which the
president was known to have carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Seņor
Goodwin ...
Pagina 90
The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with
him afterward . ” “ Tell me about it , ” demanded Johnny , betraying interest . “ I ' m
no disseminator of narratives , ” said Keogh . “ I can use language for purposes ...
The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with
him afterward . ” “ Tell me about it , ” demanded Johnny , betraying interest . “ I ' m
no disseminator of narratives , ” said Keogh . “ I can use language for purposes ...
Pagina 110
His right elbow laid out the governor man on the gridiron , and he made a lane
the length of the crowd 60 wide that a woman could have carried a step - ladder
through it without striking against anything . All Mellinger and me had to do was
to ...
His right elbow laid out the governor man on the gridiron , and he made a lane
the length of the crowd 60 wide that a woman could have carried a step - ladder
through it without striking against anything . All Mellinger and me had to do was
to ...
Pagina 115
But the money , seņor , or the thing in which it was carried — that I did not see . ”
The comandante and other officers gave testimony that they had been awakened
and alarmed by the noise of a pistol - shot in the Hotel de los Estranjeros .
But the money , seņor , or the thing in which it was carried — that I did not see . ”
The comandante and other officers gave testimony that they had been awakened
and alarmed by the noise of a pistol - shot in the Hotel de los Estranjeros .
Pagina 116
I saw nothing of money or of the thing you call veliz that you say he carried it in . "
Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable conclusion that if anyone in Coralio
could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man .
I saw nothing of money or of the thing you call veliz that you say he carried it in . "
Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable conclusion that if anyone in Coralio
could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man .
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admiral American Anchuria asked bananas beach began Billy Blythe boat bottle brought capital captain carried cigar Clancy close coast coming Company consul Coralio dark Dicky dollars door drink entered eyes face five followed friends fruit Geddie give Goodwin hand head heard Henry hundred Johnny keep Keogh kind knew land light looked means Mellinger minutes morning move native never night once paint picture play president republic says seemed Seņor shoes shore side sloop smile soon Spanish speak steamer steps stood street talk tell there's thing thought thousand told took town tree tropics turned Twas waiting walked White York young
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.
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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