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 66
... verree leetle house in a dark place . Carramba ! el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
... verree leetle house in a dark place . Carramba ! el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 68
... dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight comes , to your back door . Good aguardiente is a verree difficult fruit to handle , Señor Goodwin ...
... dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight comes , to your back door . Good aguardiente is a verree difficult fruit to handle , Señor Goodwin ...
Pagina 69
... dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert ...
... dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert ...
Pagina 75
... dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he ...
... dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he ...
Pagina 77
... dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber ...
... dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber ...
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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