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 79
... followed by outnumbering officers struggling into their gold lace and epaulettes ; the barefooted policemen ( the only capables in the lot ) , and ruffled citizens of every hue and description . They say that the countenance of the dead ...
... followed by outnumbering officers struggling into their gold lace and epaulettes ; the barefooted policemen ( the only capables in the lot ) , and ruffled citizens of every hue and description . They say that the countenance of the dead ...
Pagina 100
... followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a ...
... followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a ...
Pagina 120
... followed and stood by her side . She leaned to him , and rested in the protection of his strength , as she had always rested since that dark night on which he had first made himself her tower of refuge . Thus they stood for a little ...
... followed and stood by her side . She leaned to him , and rested in the protection of his strength , as she had always rested since that dark night on which he had first made himself her tower of refuge . Thus they stood for a little ...
Pagina 123
... followed them upstairs , leaving 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 ...
... followed them upstairs , leaving 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 ...
Pagina 159
... followed after the others , and stood with them upon the deck of the Salvador . The sailors that steadied El Nacional shoved her off . The jabbering Caribs hauled away at the rigging ; the sloop headed The Flag Paramount 159.
... followed after the others , and stood with them upon the deck of the Salvador . The sailors that steadied El Nacional shoved her off . The jabbering Caribs hauled away at the rigging ; the sloop headed The Flag Paramount 159.
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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