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 54
... light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by a large private practice among the residents of the coast . The fact that he did not know ten ...
... light , and the salary , for one who lived in Coralio , ample . Surplus time there was in plenty ; and the good doctor added to his gains by a large private practice among the residents of the coast . The fact that he did not know ten ...
Pagina 59
... lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless fathoms with their shimmering , lanceolate reflections . The Caribs were busy loading her by means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On ...
... lights seeming to penetrate the water to countless fathoms with their shimmering , lanceolate reflections . The Caribs were busy loading her by means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore . On ...
Pagina 66
... light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel ...
... light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel ...
Pagina 69
... light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room ...
... light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room ...
Pagina 75
... light touch upon her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her ...
... light touch upon her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her ...
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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