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 298
... ladies in low - neck - an - short- sleeves walking around smoking cigars ; tree frogs rattling like a hose cart going to a ten blow ; big mountains dropping gravel in the back yards , and the sea licking the paint off in front no , sir ...
... ladies in low - neck - an - short- sleeves walking around smoking cigars ; tree frogs rattling like a hose cart going to a ten blow ; big mountains dropping gravel in the back yards , and the sea licking the paint off in front no , sir ...
Pagina 299
... lady's sake , you will take the matter sensibly . You know why I want you . ' " Who are you ? ' says the old gent . " O'Day , ' says I , ' of the Columbia Detective Agency . And now , sir , let me give you a piece of good advice . You ...
... lady's sake , you will take the matter sensibly . You know why I want you . ' " Who are you ? ' says the old gent . " O'Day , ' says I , ' of the Columbia Detective Agency . And now , sir , let me give you a piece of good advice . You ...
Pagina 300
... lady , as if she was thinking , ' you want to take us back to New York ? ' " " To take Mr. Wahrfield . There's no charge against you , miss . There'll be no objection , of course , to your returning with your father . ' " Of a sudden ...
... lady , as if she was thinking , ' you want to take us back to New York ? ' " " To take Mr. Wahrfield . There's no charge against you , miss . There'll be no objection , of course , to your returning with your father . ' " Of a sudden ...
Pagina 301
... lady . ' Don't get funny . Father is of German birth , and doesn't speak perfect English . How did you come ? ' " The girl was all broke up . She had a handker- chief to her face , and kept saying every little bit , ' Oh , father ...
... lady . ' Don't get funny . Father is of German birth , and doesn't speak perfect English . How did you come ? ' " The girl was all broke up . She had a handker- chief to her face , and kept saying every little bit , ' Oh , father ...
Pagina 302
... lady says the old coloured woman would take them a note . I sat down and wrote it , and gave it to the dame with plain directions what to do , and she grins like a baboon and shakes her head . " Then Mr. Wahrfield handed her a string of ...
... lady says the old coloured woman would take them a note . I sat down and wrote it , and gave it to the dame with plain directions what to do , and she grins like a baboon and shakes her head . " Then Mr. Wahrfield handed her a string of ...
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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