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 57
... heard somebody down on the beach say that there was one or two aboard . ” " They were mistaken , sir . I myself went out and put all hands through a medical examination , as usual . The Karlsefin sails as soon as she gets her bananas ...
... heard somebody down on the beach say that there was one or two aboard . ” " They were mistaken , sir . I myself went out and put all hands through a medical examination , as usual . The Karlsefin sails as soon as she gets her bananas ...
Pagina 71
... heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet . " That is better , " said the lady . " It makes it possible for me to listen to you . For a ...
... heard a word he had said . He understood , tossed the cigar out the window , and , with an amused laugh , slid from the table to his feet . " That is better , " said the lady . " It makes it possible for me to listen to you . For a ...
Pagina 90
... heard is a phonograph , " said Keogh . " I sold him that . Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him ...
... heard is a phonograph , " said Keogh . " I sold him that . Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world . The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with him ...
Pagina 97
... heard it . They would not believe it if they should . Simple - hearted children of nature , progress has never condemned them to ac- cept the work of a can - opener as an overture , and rag - time might incite them to a bloody ...
... heard it . They would not believe it if they should . Simple - hearted children of nature , progress has never condemned them to ac- cept the work of a can - opener as an overture , and rag - time might incite them to a bloody ...
Pagina 116
... heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre Presi dente had shot himself . Está bueno . I saw noth- ing of money or of the thing you call veliz that you say he carried it in . " Colonel Falcon soon came to ...
... heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre Presi dente had shot himself . Está bueno . I saw noth- ing of money or of the thing you call veliz that you say he carried it in . " Colonel Falcon soon came to ...
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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
Brani popolari
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.