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 39
... eyes . The air was languorous with the scent of jasmin and orange - blossoms . The consul stayed his steps at the house of Bernard Brannigan . Paula was swinging in a hammock on the gallery . She rose from it like a bird from its nest ...
... eyes . The air was languorous with the scent of jasmin and orange - blossoms . The consul stayed his steps at the house of Bernard Brannigan . Paula was swinging in a hammock on the gallery . She rose from it like a bird from its nest ...
Pagina 42
... ; but the doctor is the one to decide that . ” 66 " A bottle ? " said the old man , rubbing his eyes . He was not yet fully awake . " Where is the bottle ? " " Driftin ' along out there some'eres , " said 42 Cabbages and Kings.
... ; but the doctor is the one to decide that . ” 66 " A bottle ? " said the old man , rubbing his eyes . He was not yet fully awake . " Where is the bottle ? " " Driftin ' along out there some'eres , " said 42 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 45
... eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded ...
... eye was kept even on the sloops and dories that belonged to the sea - going contingent of Coralio . Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere , but without ostentation , watching the loopholes of escape . The customs officials crowded ...
Pagina 47
... eye upon the rather motley congregation of native Anchu- rians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was ... eye of Good- win , who had seen several things , there was a dis- crepancy between Smith and his yacht . A bullet ...
... eye upon the rather motley congregation of native Anchu- rians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was ... eye of Good- win , who had seen several things , there was a dis- crepancy between Smith and his yacht . A bullet ...
Pagina 49
... eye , turn upon the partner of his joys with furious execration ; he may change his politics while you could snap your fingers ; he may deal out deadly insult to his dearest friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a ...
... eye , turn upon the partner of his joys with furious execration ; he may change his politics while you could snap your fingers ; he may deal out deadly insult to his dearest friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a ...
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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.