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 36
... land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next ...
... land- ward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish " upon the sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the wave receded . The next ...
Pagina 38
... land , where time seemed so redun- dant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn ...
... land , where time seemed so redun- dant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn ...
Pagina 40
... land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal one . He had attained a Paradise without a ser- pent . His Eve would be indeed a ...
... land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal one . He had attained a Paradise without a ser- pent . His Eve would be indeed a ...
Pagina 51
... land in Coralio . An investor now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is a harbour . " " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , " said Smith . 66 Any ...
... land in Coralio . An investor now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is a harbour . " " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , " said Smith . 66 Any ...
Pagina 59
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 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