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 124
... minutes many officers and citizens were on the spot . I suppose you have been informed of the subsequent facts . " Goodwin paused . Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went ...
... minutes many officers and citizens were on the spot . I suppose you have been informed of the subsequent facts . " Goodwin paused . Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went ...
Pagina 127
... minutes . " They went into the pulperia and sat at a little table upon stools with rawhide tops . " Have a drink ? " said Goodwin , 66 They can't bring it too quickly , " said Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi ...
... minutes . " They went into the pulperia and sat at a little table upon stools with rawhide tops . " Have a drink ? " said Goodwin , 66 They can't bring it too quickly , " said Blythe . " I've been in a drought ever since morning . Hi ...
Pagina 128
... minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle ...
... minute or two , " hinted Goodwin . " Was there anything in particular ? " Blythe did not reply at once . " Old Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle ...
Pagina 133
... of state . This commission conferred upon el Señor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria . Thus within the space of a few minutes and the dominion of a dozen " extra dry , " the country The Admiral 133.
... of state . This commission conferred upon el Señor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria . Thus within the space of a few minutes and the dominion of a dozen " extra dry , " the country The Admiral 133.
Pagina 165
... minutes me and the for- eigner man were seated at a table in the cabin of the steamer , with a bottle between us . I could hear the heavy boxes bein ' dumped into the hold . I judged that cargo must consist of at least 2,000 Winchesters ...
... minutes me and the for- eigner man were seated at a table in the cabin of the steamer , with a bottle between us . I could hear the heavy boxes bein ' dumped into the hold . I judged that cargo must consist of at least 2,000 Winchesters ...
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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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg 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
Brani popolari
Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to 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 fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.