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 73
... five or six two - story houses , accommodations limited , population half - breed Spanish and Indian , Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are ...
... five or six two - story houses , accommodations limited , population half - breed Spanish and Indian , Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are ...
Pagina 92
... contraband whisky , and a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways ; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little man about five foot five , or five foot 92 VI.
... contraband whisky , and a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways ; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little man about five foot five , or five foot 92 VI.
Pagina 93
O. Henry. little man about five foot five , or five foot eleven . He was what you would call a medium tall man of average smallness . Henry had quit college once , and the Muscogee jail three times the last - named institution on account ...
O. Henry. little man about five foot five , or five foot eleven . He was what you would call a medium tall man of average smallness . Henry had quit college once , and the Muscogee jail three times the last - named institution on account ...
Pagina 107
... he stood dumb , tapping the lit- tle package with the ends of his fingers . The colo- rado - maduro gang was after his graft . He had only to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in The Phonograph and the Graft 107.
... he stood dumb , tapping the lit- tle package with the ends of his fingers . The colo- rado - maduro gang was after his graft . He had only to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in The Phonograph and the Graft 107.
Pagina 108
O. Henry. to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in his in- side pocket . " Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in the programme interpreted . I whisper back : ' H. P. is up against a bribe , senator's size , and the coons ...
O. Henry. to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in his in- side pocket . " Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in the programme interpreted . I whisper back : ' H. P. is up against a bribe , senator's size , and the coons ...
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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 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