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 103
... friends . If a mule driver takes off his hat to an official , that man figures it out that he's a popular idol , and sets his pegs to stir up a revolution and upset the administration . It's one of my little chores as private secretary ...
... friends . If a mule driver takes off his hat to an official , that man figures it out that he's a popular idol , and sets his pegs to stir up a revolution and upset the administration . It's one of my little chores as private secretary ...
Pagina 105
... friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry got the cue and run on an elegant brass - band record and the festivities became initiated . The governor man had a bit The Phonograph and the Graft 105.
... friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry got the cue and run on an elegant brass - band record and the festivities became initiated . The governor man had a bit The Phonograph and the Graft 105.
Pagina 107
... friendship and aid so much that'— Mellinger rises his hand , but the governor man bot- tles him up . ' Do not speak until I have done . ' " The governor man then draws a package wrapped in paper from his pocket , and lays it on the ...
... friendship and aid so much that'— Mellinger rises his hand , but the governor man bot- tles him up . ' Do not speak until I have done . ' " The governor man then draws a package wrapped in paper from his pocket , and lays it on the ...
Pagina 116
... friend to the new adminis- tration , and one who was not to be carelessly dealt with in respect to either his honesty or his courage . Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesi- tated to have this rubber prince and mahogany ...
... friend to the new adminis- tration , and one who was not to be carelessly dealt with in respect to either his honesty or his courage . Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesi- tated to have this rubber prince and mahogany ...
Pagina 123
... friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher from Englehart , one of our leaders in the capi- tal . About ten o'clock that night I saw a man and a ...
... friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher from Englehart , one of our leaders in the capi- tal . About ten o'clock that night I saw a man and a ...
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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