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 49
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
Pagina 52
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
Pagina 69
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. ” Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. ” Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
Pagina 85
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and 99 Germans who made up the " foreign contingent . Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and 99 Germans who made up the " foreign contingent . Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
Pagina 100
... friends , the Seņors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and 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 think in the ...
... friends , the Seņors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and 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 think in the ...
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