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 107
... dollars in money of your country . You can do nothing against us , but you can be worth that for us . Go back to the capital and obey our instructions . Take that money now . We trust you . You will find with it a paper giving in detail ...
... dollars in money of your country . You can do nothing against us , but you can be worth that for us . Go back to the capital and obey our instructions . Take that money now . We trust you . You will find with it a paper giving in detail ...
Pagina 123
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late ...
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer . The Government , offi- cially and personally , is loathe to believe , " con- cluded Colonel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late ...
Pagina 167
... , ' says I , haughty . I'll pay my own passage . ' A hundred and eighty dollars I had in my inside pocket , and ' twas no common filibuster I was goin ' to be , filibusterin ' for me board The Shamrock and the Palm 167.
... , ' says I , haughty . I'll pay my own passage . ' A hundred and eighty dollars I had in my inside pocket , and ' twas no common filibuster I was goin ' to be , filibusterin ' for me board The Shamrock and the Palm 167.
Pagina 168
... dollars , first cabin and ate at table with the officer crowd . Down on the lower deck was a gang of second - class passengers , about forty of them , seemin ' to be Da- goes and the like . I wondered what so many of them were goin ...
... dollars , first cabin and ate at table with the officer crowd . Down on the lower deck was a gang of second - class passengers , about forty of them , seemin ' to be Da- goes and the like . I wondered what so many of them were goin ...
Pagina 171
... dollars in the month . Good pay . Ah , yes . You strong , brave man . Bimeby we push those rail- road in the capital very quick . They want you go work now . Adios , strong mans . ' 6 " Monseer , ' says I , lingerin ' , ' will you tell ...
... dollars in the month . Good pay . Ah , yes . You strong , brave man . Bimeby we push those rail- road in the capital very quick . They want you go work now . Adios , strong mans . ' 6 " Monseer , ' says I , lingerin ' , ' will you tell ...
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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.