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 115
... out , told of the coming of the two guest to her house . ― 66 one señor , " To house they came , " said she my not quite old , and one señorita of sufficient handsome- ness . They desired not to eat or to drink Money Maze 115.
... out , told of the coming of the two guest to her house . ― 66 one señor , " To house they came , " said she my not quite old , and one señorita of sufficient handsome- ness . They desired not to eat or to drink Money Maze 115.
Pagina 118
... coming , were it twenty times a day . If they who sometimes sat over their wine in Coralio , reshaping old , diverting stories of the mad- cap career of Isabel Guilbert , could have seen the wife of Frank Goodwin that afternoon in the ...
... coming , were it twenty times a day . If they who sometimes sat over their wine in Coralio , reshaping old , diverting stories of the mad- cap career of Isabel Guilbert , could have seen the wife of Frank Goodwin that afternoon in the ...
Pagina 123
... coming directly to the point . " It will not require many words . 66 " On that night , with others of our friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher ...
... coming directly to the point . " It will not require many words . 66 " On that night , with others of our friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher ...
Pagina 139
... coming . Abruptly the admiral departed with his crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful ...
... coming . Abruptly the admiral departed with his crew . For the next three days they were busy giving the Estrella del Noche a new coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned him- self by fastening a handful ...
Pagina 206
... coming down where you are and opening a shoe store . Wants to know if you think the business would pay . Says he's heard of the boom along this coast , and wants to get in on the ground floor . " In spite of the heat and his bad temper ...
... coming down where you are and opening a shoe store . Wants to know if you think the business would pay . Says he's heard of the boom along this coast , and wants to get in on the ground floor . " In spite of the heat and his bad temper ...
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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.