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 70
... knew her history , and the small part that the conventions had played in it . 66 " Good evening , " he said . Now , madame , let us come to business at once . You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room ...
... knew her history , and the small part that the conventions had played in it . 66 " Good evening , " he said . Now , madame , let us come to business at once . You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room ...
Pagina 94
... knew that when it came time to wind watches in Little Rock an entomologist would be needed , and he wasn't one . " So , as I say , Henry had $ 360 , and I had $ 288 . The idea of introducing the phonograph to South America was Henry's ...
... knew that when it came time to wind watches in Little Rock an entomologist would be needed , and he wasn't one . " So , as I say , Henry had $ 360 , and I had $ 288 . The idea of introducing the phonograph to South America was Henry's ...
Pagina 102
... Billy Ren- frow's café , corner of Thirty - fourth and 6 " God knows it , ' interrupts Mellinger , and if you'd told me you knew Billy Renfrow I'd have in- vented tons of ways of making you happy . Billy 102 Cabbages and Kings.
... Billy Ren- frow's café , corner of Thirty - fourth and 6 " God knows it , ' interrupts Mellinger , and if you'd told me you knew Billy Renfrow I'd have in- vented tons of ways of making you happy . Billy 102 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 103
... knew what crooked was . of There is a man Here I am work- ing Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this coun- try . Everything's rotten . From the executive down to the coffee pickers ...
... knew what crooked was . of There is a man Here I am work- ing Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this coun- try . Everything's rotten . From the executive down to the coffee pickers ...
Pagina 105
... knew that Mellinger , private secretary , had all the dances on his card taken . That was a big , squashy man , the colour of a rubber overshoe , and he had an eye like a head waiter's . 66 Mellinger explained , fluent , in the ...
... knew that Mellinger , private secretary , had all the dances on his card taken . That was a big , squashy man , the colour of a rubber overshoe , and he had an eye like a head waiter's . 66 Mellinger explained , fluent , in 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 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.