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 171
... hundred of us in the gang startin ' out to work , and the word was given to move . I steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He ...
... hundred of us in the gang startin ' out to work , and the word was given to move . I steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He ...
Pagina 173
... hundred men workin ' on the road mostly Dagoes , nigger - men , Spanish - men and Swedes . Three or four were Irish . " One old man named Halloran - a man of Hiber- nian entitlements and discretions , explained it to me . He had been ...
... hundred men workin ' on the road mostly Dagoes , nigger - men , Spanish - men and Swedes . Three or four were Irish . " One old man named Halloran - a man of Hiber- nian entitlements and discretions , explained it to me . He had been ...
Pagina 178
... hundred thousand soldier to suppress revolution . They fight big battle yester- day at Lomagrande — that about nineteen or fifty mile in the mountain . That government soldier wheep General De Vega - oh , most bad . Five hun- dred ...
... hundred thousand soldier to suppress revolution . They fight big battle yester- day at Lomagrande — that about nineteen or fifty mile in the mountain . That government soldier wheep General De Vega - oh , most bad . Five hun- dred ...
Pagina 184
... hundreds of bare feet , and the Dago gang that unloads the fruit jumped on the deck and down into the hold . Me and the general worked a while at passin ' up the bunches , and they thought we were part of the gang . After about an hour ...
... hundreds of bare feet , and the Dago gang that unloads the fruit jumped on the deck and down into the hold . Me and the general worked a while at passin ' up the bunches , and they thought we were part of the gang . After about an hour ...
Pagina 200
... hundred - thousand - dollar crop from one orange tree in a season about breaks the record of the fruit - growing industry . - " Being a gentleman at that time , of course I never mentioned the incident to anyone . But this morn- ing I ...
... hundred - thousand - dollar crop from one orange tree in a season about breaks the record of the fruit - growing industry . - " Being a gentleman at that time , of course I never mentioned the incident to anyone . But this morn- ing I ...
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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.