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 39
... playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with ...
... playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with ...
Pagina 61
... play . He comes no more to Coralio nor to Doctor Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of ...
... play . He comes no more to Coralio nor to Doctor Gregg , who sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of ...
Pagina 70
... played in it . " Good evening , " he said . us come to business at 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 ...
... played in it . " Good evening , " he said . us come to business at 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 ...
Pagina 82
... scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation 82 V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER.
... scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casu- alties along the Spanish Main by his famous ma- nipulation 82 V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER.
Pagina 89
... playing with spirit the familiar air of " Home , Sweet Home . ” It was a scene set for the land of the lotus . The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on ...
... playing with spirit the familiar air of " Home , Sweet Home . ” It was a scene set for the land of the lotus . The authority of the sea and the tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on ...
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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