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 32
... never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re- taliate upon her by ...
... never forget Ida , of course ; but there was no longer any pain in thinking about her . When they had had that misunderstanding and quarrel he had im- pulsively sought this consulship , with the desire to re- taliate upon her by ...
Pagina 49
... never did things in a half - way manner , was to take Geddie at once for a partner in his very profitable and various enterprises ; and Paula was happily en- gaged in plans for refurnishing and decorating the upper story of the ...
... never did things in a half - way manner , was to take Geddie at once for a partner in his very profitable and various enterprises ; and Paula was happily en- gaged in plans for refurnishing and decorating the upper story of the ...
Pagina 59
... never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter . Twice had he been assured that no passengers had come to Coralio on board of her . And ...
... never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter . Twice had he been assured that no passengers had come to Coralio on board of her . And ...
Pagina 82
... never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales ...
... never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales ...
Pagina 87
... never was a plow or a reaper within the boundaries of Anchuria . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul , and immediately he fell asleep . The cheerful tintypist pursued his intimacy with Johnny in spite Cupid's Exile ...
... never was a plow or a reaper within the boundaries of Anchuria . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul , and immediately he fell asleep . The cheerful tintypist pursued his intimacy with Johnny in spite Cupid's Exile ...
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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.