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 52
... door it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . ” The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the ...
... door it's that two - story building with the balcony , where the orange - trees are . ” The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the ...
Pagina 53
... door , enjoying the breeze from the sea . Dr. Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an ...
... door , enjoying the breeze from the sea . Dr. Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an ...
Pagina 63
... doors and windows . An occasional soldier from the cuar- tel , with flapping straw hat , without coat or shoes , hurried by , balancing his long gun like a lance in one hand . From every density of the foliage the giant tree frogs ...
... doors and windows . An occasional soldier from the cuar- tel , with flapping straw hat , without coat or shoes , hurried by , balancing his long gun like a lance in one hand . From every density of the foliage the giant tree frogs ...
Pagina 65
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
Pagina 66
... door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two ... doors as late as eleven , post merid- ian . He was a partisan Liberal ; and he greeted Goodwin with flatulent importance as ...
... door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two ... doors as late as eleven , post merid- ian . He was a partisan Liberal ; and he greeted Goodwin with flatulent importance as ...
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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.