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 123
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe , " concluded Col- onel Falcon , with a smile , " that our late ...
... dollars belonging to the government , accompanied by Señorita Isabel Guil- bert , the opera singer . The Government , officially and personally , is loathe to believe , " concluded Col- onel 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 . ' " Monseer , ' says I , lingerin ' , ' will you tell a ...
... 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 . ' " Monseer , ' says I , lingerin ' , ' will you tell a ...
Pagina 172
... dollar in the month . You shall shoulder one pickaxe , señor , and dig for the liberty and prosperity of Guatemala . Off to your work . The guard waits for you . ' " Little , fat , poodle dog of a brown man , ' says I , quiet , but full ...
... dollar in the month . You shall shoulder one pickaxe , señor , and dig for the liberty and prosperity of Guatemala . Off to your work . The guard waits for you . ' " Little , fat , poodle dog of a brown man , ' says I , quiet , but full ...
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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