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 29
... native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs ...
... native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs ...
Pagina 33
... native girls could be compared with her . She had at- tended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and ...
... native girls could be compared with her . She had at- tended a convent school in New Orleans for two years ; and when she chose to display her accomplishments no one could detect any difference between her and the girls of Norfolk and ...
Pagina 34
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
... native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 47
... native Anchu- rians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure pres- ent . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and ...
... native Anchu- rians , and made his way at once toward Goodwin , who was the most conspicuously Anglo - Saxon figure pres- ent . Goodwin greeted him with courtesy . Conversation developed that the newly landed one was named Smith , and ...
Pagina 51
... native high - fliers . " 66 Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach ...
... native high - fliers . " 66 Thanks , " said the yachtsman , " but I wouldn't put you to the trouble . I'd like to meet the guys you speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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.