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 108
... face . " That's my answer , ' says Mellinger , private secre- tary , ' and there'll be another in the morning . I have proofs of conspiracy against every man of you . The show is over , gentlemen . ' 66 " " There's one more act , ' puts ...
... face . " That's my answer , ' says Mellinger , private secre- tary , ' and there'll be another in the morning . I have proofs of conspiracy against every man of you . The show is over , gentlemen . ' 66 " " There's one more act , ' puts ...
Pagina 114
... face ? He sent for me to shave him in a small house . He had a beard very black and thick . Had I ever seen the president before ? Why not ? I saw him once ride forth in a carriage from the vapor in Solitas . When I shaved him he gave ...
... face ? He sent for me to shave him in a small house . He had a beard very black and thick . Had I ever seen the president before ? Why not ? I saw him once ride forth in a carriage from the vapor in Solitas . When I shaved him he gave ...
Pagina 121
... presented . For upon the faces and in the bearing of each of them was visible ( if countenances are to be believed ) Saxon honesty and pride and honourable thoughts . In Goodwin's steady eye and firm lineaments Money Maze 121.
... presented . For upon the faces and in the bearing of each of them was visible ( if countenances are to be believed ) Saxon honesty and pride and honourable thoughts . In Goodwin's steady eye and firm lineaments Money Maze 121.
Pagina 122
... face of their accusive talk . Nobility was in her guise ; purity was in her glance . The devo- tion that she manifested had not even the appear- ance of that feeling that now and then inspires a woman to share the guilt of her partner ...
... face of their accusive talk . Nobility was in her guise ; purity was in her glance . The devo- tion that she manifested had not even the appear- ance of that feeling that now and then inspires a woman to share the guilt of her partner ...
Pagina 123
... Estebán , who had come up , to watch outside . The barber had told me that he had shaved the beard from the president's face that night ; therefore I was prepared , when I entered the rooms , to find him with a smooth Money Maze 123.
... Estebán , who had come up , to watch outside . The barber had told me that he had shaved the beard from the president's face that night ; therefore I was prepared , when I entered the rooms , to find him with a smooth Money Maze 123.
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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