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
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- - garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- 70 Cabbages and Kings.
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- - garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- 70 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 74
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ...
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ...
Pagina 75
... moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
... moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
Pagina 84
... moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream she would be skimming for Pink Dawson's ...
... moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream she would be skimming for Pink Dawson's ...
Pagina 108
... moving closer to the package . ' He's weakening , ' I whis- pered to Henry . ' We'll remind him , ' says Henry ... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up little ...
... moving closer to the package . ' He's weakening , ' I whis- pered to Henry . ' We'll remind him , ' says Henry ... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up little ...
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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