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 125
... lady there . I must beg of you to remember that that lady is now my wife . I speak for her as I do for myself . She knows nothing of the fate of the valise or of the money that you are seeking . You will say to his excellency that I ...
... lady there . I must beg of you to remember that that lady is now my wife . I speak for her as I do for myself . She knows nothing of the fate of the valise or of the money that you are seeking . You will say to his excellency that I ...
Pagina 139
... lady . Being on land he could bring himself to no more exuberant expression of sentiment . At sea with the flag at the masthead of his navy , some more eloquent exposition of feelings might be forth- coming . Abruptly the admiral ...
... lady . Being on land he could bring himself to no more exuberant expression of sentiment . At sea with the flag at the masthead of his navy , some more eloquent exposition of feelings might be forth- coming . Abruptly the admiral ...
Pagina 207
... ladies . Let's see - don't some of the soldiers at the cuartel- no : that's so ; they're allowed shoes only when on the march . In barracks they turn their little tocses out to grass . " " ' Bout right , " agreed the consul . " Not over ...
... ladies . Let's see - don't some of the soldiers at the cuartel- no : that's so ; they're allowed shoes only when on the march . In barracks they turn their little tocses out to grass . " " ' Bout right , " agreed the consul . " Not over ...
Pagina 221
... lady - love and life . The burrs were the ripe August product , as hard as filberts , and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles . Johnny whistled softly a little tune , and went out to find Billy Keogh . Later in the night ...
... lady - love and life . The burrs were the ripe August product , as hard as filberts , and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles . Johnny whistled softly a little tune , and went out to find Billy Keogh . Later in the night ...
Pagina 296
... lady with him would be a dead - give - away anywhere . She was one of the high - flyers in Society — not the kind that have their pictures in the Sunday papers- but the real sort that open chrysanthemum shows and christen battleships ...
... lady with him would be a dead - give - away anywhere . She was one of the high - flyers in Society — not the kind that have their pictures in the Sunday papers- but the real sort that open chrysanthemum shows and christen battleships ...
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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