Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine A 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 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 arrange- ment of sounds with his mouth that made the Latin aggregation pause , with thoughtfulness and hesita- tions . The matter of his proclamation seemed to be a ...
... close , and rush the game . ' " Then that cultured Red Man exhaled an arrange- ment of sounds with his mouth that made the Latin aggregation pause , with thoughtfulness and hesita- tions . The matter of his proclamation seemed to be a ...
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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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 Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution 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 tintypes tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla