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 70
... looked up when the American entered with an expression of sur- prised inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted ...
... looked up when the American entered with an expression of sur- prised inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted ...
Pagina 98
... stopped at the door and looked in . We extended the invita- tions , and he walked inside and sized us up . He was chewing a long cigar , and wrinkling his eyes , meditative , like a girl trying to decide which dress 98 Cabbages and Kings.
... stopped at the door and looked in . We extended the invita- tions , and he walked inside and sized us up . He was chewing a long cigar , and wrinkling his eyes , meditative , like a girl trying to decide which dress 98 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 107
... looked at Mellinger , and was glad Billy Renfrow couldn't see him then . The sweat was popping out on his forehead , and he stood dumb , tapping the little package with the ends of his fingers . The colorado- maduro gang was after his ...
... looked at Mellinger , and was glad Billy Renfrow couldn't see him then . The sweat was popping out on his forehead , and he stood dumb , tapping the little package with the ends of his fingers . The colorado- maduro gang was after his ...
Pagina 117
... looked to be happy . And more she looked to be content . Had a poet been inspired to pen just similes concerning her favour , he would have likened her full , clear eyes , with their white - encircled , gray irises , to moonflowers ...
... looked to be happy . And more she looked to be content . Had a poet been inspired to pen just similes concerning her favour , he would have likened her full , clear eyes , with their white - encircled , gray irises , to moonflowers ...
Pagina 118
... looked up , and her lips curved and parted ; her eyelids fluttered twice or thrice a movement remindful ( Poesy forgive us ! ) of the tail - wagging of a faithful dog - and a little ripple went through her like the commotion set up in a ...
... looked up , and her lips curved and parted ; her eyelids fluttered twice or thrice a movement remindful ( Poesy forgive us ! ) of the tail - wagging of a faithful dog - and a little ripple went through her like the commotion set up in a ...
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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