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 134
... moved to laughter ( as are their northern brothers ) by the spectacle of the deformed , the feeble - minded or the insane . Felipe Carrera was sent upon earth with but half his wits . Therefore , the people of Coralio called him " El ...
... moved to laughter ( as are their northern brothers ) by the spectacle of the deformed , the feeble - minded or the insane . Felipe Carrera was sent upon earth with but half his wits . Therefore , the people of Coralio called him " El ...
Pagina 147
... move- ment save of the sea - going water as it purled against the prow of the vessel . Small chance there seemed of wresting beef or provisions from that empty soli- tude . The admiral decided to cast anchor , and , at the chain's ...
... move- ment save of the sea - going water as it purled against the prow of the vessel . Small chance there seemed of wresting beef or provisions from that empty soli- tude . The admiral decided to cast anchor , and , at the chain's ...
Pagina 159
... moved to quit the sloop . Don Sabas lagged a little behind , looking at the still form of the late admiral , sprawled in his paltry trappings . " Pobrecito loco , " he said softly . He was a brilliant cosmopolite and a cognoscente of ...
... moved to quit the sloop . Don Sabas lagged a little behind , looking at the still form of the late admiral , sprawled in his paltry trappings . " Pobrecito loco , " he said softly . He was a brilliant cosmopolite and a cognoscente of ...
Pagina 161
... door jamb and a calabash - tree . Keogh had moved out upon the grass a little table that held the instrument for burnishing completed photographs . He was the only busy one 161 of the group . Industriously from between the cylin- ders XI.
... door jamb and a calabash - tree . Keogh had moved out upon the grass a little table that held the instrument for burnishing completed photographs . He was the only busy one 161 of the group . Industriously from between the cylin- ders XI.
Pagina 171
... move . I steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , ' for big ...
... move . I steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man , who was smokin ' a cigar and gazin ' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory . He smiles at me polite and devilish . Plenty work , ' says he , ' for big ...
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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