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 88
... close to shore , slowly swam a little sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater ...
... close to shore , slowly swam a little sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater ...
Pagina 89
... close in shore , this time nearly opposite the consulate ; and then there blew from the sloop clear and surprising notes as if from a horn of elfland . A fairy bugle it might have been , sweet and silvery and unexpected , playing with ...
... close in shore , this time nearly opposite the consulate ; and then there blew from the sloop clear and surprising notes as if from a horn of elfland . A fairy bugle it might have been , sweet and silvery and unexpected , playing with ...
Pagina 110
... close , and rush the game . ' " Then that cultured Red Man exhaled an ar- rangement of sounds with his mouth that made the Latin aggregation pause , with thoughtfulness and hesitations . The matter of his proclamation seemed to be a co ...
... close , and rush the game . ' " Then that cultured Red Man exhaled an ar- rangement of sounds with his mouth that made the Latin aggregation pause , with thoughtfulness and hesitations . The matter of his proclamation seemed to be a co ...
Pagina 121
... close in- vestigation , according to his orders , but he will find out nothing . " Thus they spake together . Had anyone over- heard or overseen them as they discussed the lost funds of Anchuria there would have been a second puzzle ...
... close in- vestigation , according to his orders , but he will find out nothing . " Thus they spake together . Had anyone over- heard or overseen them as they discussed the lost funds of Anchuria there would have been a second puzzle ...
Pagina 152
... close- headed converse . The sloop was speeding as if to strike midway between ship and shore . The large man suddenly separated from his com- panions and approached the scarecrow at the helm . " My dear admiral , " he said , " the ...
... close- headed converse . The sloop was speeding as if to strike midway between ship and shore . The large man suddenly separated from his com- panions and approached the scarecrow at the helm . " My dear admiral , " he said , " the ...
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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 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.