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 97
... kind of a man , in whom drink lay stagnant , inclined to cor- pulence and misery . Yes , I think he was a kind of Dutchman , being very sad and genial in his ways . " " The marvelous invention , ' he says , ' entitled the phonograph ...
... kind of a man , in whom drink lay stagnant , inclined to cor- pulence and misery . Yes , I think he was a kind of Dutchman , being very sad and genial in his ways . " " The marvelous invention , ' he says , ' entitled the phonograph ...
Pagina 100
... kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a green cocoanut , and pour in on the juice of it French ...
... kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection . They chop off the end of a green cocoanut , and pour in on the juice of it French ...
Pagina 101
... kind on earth . I'll put you wise . You remember the old top - liner in the copy book- " Honesty is the Best Policy " ? That's it . I'm working honesty for a graft . I'm the only hon- est man in the republic . The government knows it ...
... kind on earth . I'll put you wise . You remember the old top - liner in the copy book- " Honesty is the Best Policy " ? That's it . I'm working honesty for a graft . I'm the only hon- est man in the republic . The government knows it ...
Pagina 103
... kind of fretful . " They're capitalized by a foreign syndicate after rubber , and they're loaded to the muzzle for bribing . I'm sick , ' goes on Mellinger , ' of comic opera . I want to smell East River and wear suspenders again . At ...
... kind of fretful . " They're capitalized by a foreign syndicate after rubber , and they're loaded to the muzzle for bribing . I'm sick , ' goes on Mellinger , ' of comic opera . I want to smell East River and wear suspenders again . At ...
Pagina 106
... kind of man , who took his own time . Yes , he was full of atten- tion and immediateness . He leaned his hands on the table and imposed his face toward the secretary man . " Do the American señors understand Spanish ? ' he asks in his ...
... kind of man , who took his own time . Yes , he was full of atten- tion and immediateness . He leaned his hands on the table and imposed his face toward the secretary man . " Do the American señors understand Spanish ? ' he asks in his ...
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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