Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews, 1916 - 312 pagine A 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. |
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Pagina 47
... 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 that he had come in a yacht . A meagre ...
... 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 that he had come in a yacht . A meagre ...
Pagina 49
... 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 Brannigan house . The consul rose from his hammock when he saw the Smith 49.
... 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 Brannigan house . The consul rose from his hammock when he saw the Smith 49.
Pagina 67
... once , " answered Estebán . " He is tall ; and he had weeskers , verree black and sufficient . " " Was anyone else present when you shaved him ? " " An old Indian woman , Señor , that belonged with the casa , and one señorita a ladee of ...
... once , " answered Estebán . " He is tall ; and he had weeskers , verree black and sufficient . " " Was anyone else present when you shaved him ? " " An old Indian woman , Señor , that belonged with the casa , and one señorita a ladee of ...
Pagina 70
... once . " Now , madame , let You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room , and what he carries in that valise . That is the point which brings me here . I have come to dic- tate terms of surrender ...
... once . " Now , madame , let You will observe that I mention no names , but I know who is in the next room , and what he carries in that valise . That is the point which brings me here . I have come to dic- tate terms of surrender ...
Pagina 85
... conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent , Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
... conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent , Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
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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 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