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 53
... fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native official on some trifling gov- ernment quest would have his pomp and majesty ...
... fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story ; sometimes a minor native official on some trifling gov- ernment quest would have his pomp and majesty ...
Pagina 59
... fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The ...
... fruit ranged upon the shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The ...
Pagina 68
... fruit to handle , Señor Goodwin . " Smuggling , in Coralio , was much nearer than competition to being the life of trade . One spoke of it slyly , yet with a certain conceit , when it had been well accomplished . " You have guests in ...
... fruit to handle , Señor Goodwin . " Smuggling , in Coralio , was much nearer than competition to being the life of trade . One spoke of it slyly , yet with a certain conceit , when it had been well accomplished . " You have guests in ...
Pagina 85
... fruit steamer for the coast of Anchuria . When the new consul arrived in Coralio the strangeness of the scenes diverted him much . He was only twenty - two ; and the grief of youth is not worn like a garment as it is by older men . It ...
... fruit steamer for the coast of Anchuria . When the new consul arrived in Coralio the strangeness of the scenes diverted him much . He was only twenty - two ; and the grief of youth is not worn like a garment as it is by older men . It ...
Pagina 86
... . " " You might look over these headings , " suggested Geddie , " of the different lines of exports you will have to keep account of . The fruit is classified ; and there are the valuable woods , coffee , rubber- 86 Cabbages and Kings.
... . " " You might look over these headings , " suggested Geddie , " of the different lines of exports you will have to keep account of . The fruit is classified ; and there are the valuable woods , coffee , rubber- 86 Cabbages and Kings.
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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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg 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
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.