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 28
... it up- right in the sand , and stooped , with his hands resting upon his knees . The purser , burlesquing the pitcher's contortions , hurled at the consul the heavy roll of - newspapers , tied with a string , that the 28 Cabbages and Kings.
... it up- right in the sand , and stooped , with his hands resting upon his knees . The purser , burlesquing the pitcher's contortions , hurled at the consul the heavy roll of - newspapers , tied with a string , that the 28 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 29
... consul re - hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides ...
... consul re - hoisted his umbrella and walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides ...
Pagina 30
... consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was ...
... consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was ...
Pagina 34
... consul tired of reading . The papers lay scattered about him on the gallery . Reclining there , he gazed dream- ily out upon an Eden . A clump of banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope ...
... consul tired of reading . The papers lay scattered about him on the gallery . Reclining there , he gazed dream- ily out upon an Eden . A clump of banana plants interposed their broad shields between him and the sun . The gentle slope ...
Pagina 35
... consul's little world , and was gone . Save for the tiny cloud of smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to ...
... consul's little world , and was gone . Save for the tiny cloud of smoke that was left hanging over the brim of the sea , she might have been an immaterial thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to ...
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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
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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.