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 53
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , rid- ing in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
... five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , rid- ing in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native ...
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 . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of ...
... 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 . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of ...
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 VII.
... 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 VII.
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
... ends of his fingers . The colorado- maduro gang was after his graft . He had only to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in his inside pocket . " Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in The Phonograph and the Graft 107.
... ends of his fingers . The colorado- maduro gang was after his graft . He had only to change his politics , and stuff five fingers in his inside pocket . " Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in The Phonograph and the Graft 107.
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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