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 63
... keep a vigilant lookout during the night to prevent Miraflores from attempting to embark stealthily by means of some boat or sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready ...
... keep a vigilant lookout during the night to prevent Miraflores from attempting to embark stealthily by means of some boat or sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready ...
Pagina 67
... keeping watch upon the two sides of the hotel that looked upon the street , and observing whether anyone should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered ...
... keeping watch upon the two sides of the hotel that looked upon the street , and observing whether anyone should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered ...
Pagina 86
... 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- " " That last account sounds all right , " interrupted 86 Cabbages and Kings.
... 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- " " That last account sounds all right , " interrupted 86 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 101
... keep its faith . If a man is promised a job he gets it . If outside capital buys a concession it gets the goods . I run a monopoly of square dealing here . There's no competition . If Colonel Diogenes were to flash his The Phonograph ...
... keep its faith . If a man is promised a job he gets it . If outside capital buys a concession it gets the goods . I run a monopoly of square dealing here . There's no competition . If Colonel Diogenes were to flash his The Phonograph ...
Pagina 123
... 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 woman hurrying along the ...
... 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 woman hurrying along the ...
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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