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 83
... honoured all over the state long before and since the war . It does seem that she should have gladly consented to have been led into that stately but rather empty colonial mansion . But not so . There was a cloud on the horizon , a ...
... honoured all over the state long before and since the war . It does seem that she should have gladly consented to have been led into that stately but rather empty colonial mansion . But not so . There was a cloud on the horizon , a ...
Pagina 110
... honours of war , and marched back to the cuartel with it playing ' All Coons Look Alike to Me . ' " The next day Mellinger takes me and Henry to one side , and begins to shed tens and twenties . " I want to buy that phonograph , ' says ...
... honours of war , and marched back to the cuartel with it playing ' All Coons Look Alike to Me . ' " The next day Mellinger takes me and Henry to one side , and begins to shed tens and twenties . " I want to buy that phonograph , ' says ...
Pagina 118
... honour . " I have brought a guest to dinner , " said Goodwin . " One Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those con- venient and ...
... honour . " I have brought a guest to dinner , " said Goodwin . " One Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those con- venient and ...
Pagina 137
... honour and prestige of your country at sea , and endeavour to place Anchuria among the proudest naval powers of the world . These are your instructions as the Minister of War desires me to convey them to you . Por Dios ! I do not know ...
... honour and prestige of your country at sea , and endeavour to place Anchuria among the proudest naval powers of the world . These are your instructions as the Minister of War desires me to convey them to you . Por Dios ! I do not know ...
Pagina 138
... their naked feet . Briefly and with dignity Felipe demanded his vessel of the collector . And now a fresh honour awaited him . The collector's wife , who played the guitar and read novels in the hammock all day , 138 Cabbages and Kings.
... their naked feet . Briefly and with dignity Felipe demanded his vessel of the collector . And now a fresh honour awaited him . The collector's wife , who played the guitar and read novels in the hammock all day , 138 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 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