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 26
... laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran ...
... laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quaran ...
Pagina 29
... laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations did not flourish in Coralio . The consul re - hoisted ...
... laughed and applauded delight- edly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never disappointed . Innovations did not flourish in Coralio . The consul re - hoisted ...
Pagina 172
... laughed considerable . Yes , he laughed very long and loud , and I , Clancy , stood and waited . So you " Comical mans ! ' he shouts , at last . will kill me from the laughing . Yes ; it is hard to find the brave , strong mans to aid my ...
... laughed considerable . Yes , he laughed very long and loud , and I , Clancy , stood and waited . So you " Comical mans ! ' he shouts , at last . will kill me from the laughing . Yes ; it is hard to find the brave , strong mans to aid my ...
Pagina 183
... laughed at that drollest Irish . I say to him : " Strong , big mans is need very much in Guatemala . " " I will blows strike for your down - pressed country , " he say . " That shall you do , " I tell him . Ah ! it was an Irish so comic ...
... laughed at that drollest Irish . I say to him : " Strong , big mans is need very much in Guatemala . " " I will blows strike for your down - pressed country , " he say . " That shall you do , " I tell him . Ah ! it was an Irish so comic ...
Pagina 206
... laughed too ; and the pet monkey on the top shelf of the book- case chattered in shrill sympathy with the ironical reception of the letter from Dalesburg . " Shoe wonder ? - of our " Great bunions ! " exclaimed the consul . store ! What ...
... laughed too ; and the pet monkey on the top shelf of the book- case chattered in shrill sympathy with the ironical reception of the letter from Dalesburg . " Shoe wonder ? - of our " Great bunions ! " exclaimed the consul . store ! What ...
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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