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 158
... looked perplexed for a moment . " That revolution - ah , yes ! " With a " That revolution shrug of his shoulders he dismissed the matter . The captain learned of the escape and the im prisoned crew . " Caribs ? " he said ; " no harm in ...
... looked perplexed for a moment . " That revolution - ah , yes ! " With a " That revolution shrug of his shoulders he dismissed the matter . The captain learned of the escape and the im prisoned crew . " Caribs ? " he said ; " no harm in ...
Pagina 159
... looked , and said , " The poor little crazed one ! " Stooping he raised the limp shoulders , drew the priceless and induplicable flag under them and over the breast , pinning it there with the diamond star of the Order of San Carlos ...
... looked , and said , " The poor little crazed one ! " Stooping he raised the limp shoulders , drew the priceless and induplicable flag under them and over the breast , pinning it there with the diamond star of the Order of San Carlos ...
Pagina 167
... looked at me with tears in his eyes , and from time to time he would emit the remark , ' Ah ! big , strong , brave mans ! That is what my country need . ' " General De Vega , as was the name by which he denounced himself , brought out a ...
... looked at me with tears in his eyes , and from time to time he would emit the remark , ' Ah ! big , strong , brave mans ! That is what my country need . ' " General De Vega , as was the name by which he denounced himself , brought out a ...
Pagina 172
... looked in those one box containing those gun for the guard . You think all boxes is contain gun ? No. " " There is not war in Guatemala . But work ? Yes . Good . T'irty dollar in the month . You shall shoulder one pickaxe , señor , and ...
... looked in those one box containing those gun for the guard . You think all boxes is contain gun ? No. " " There is not war in Guatemala . But work ? Yes . Good . T'irty dollar in the month . You shall shoulder one pickaxe , señor , and ...
Pagina 179
... looked down and saw the cargo of bananas that filled the hold to within six feet of the top . I thinks to myself , ' Clancy , you better go as a stowaway . It's safer . The steamer men might hand you back to the employment bureau . The ...
... looked down and saw the cargo of bananas that filled the hold to within six feet of the top . I thinks to myself , ' Clancy , you better go as a stowaway . It's safer . The steamer men might hand you back to the employment bureau . 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 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