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 9
... presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and counterplotting , and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars — dollars warmed no more by the tor- rid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of ...
... presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and counterplotting , and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars — dollars warmed no more by the tor- rid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of ...
Pagina 15
... President Miraflores . If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a ...
... President Miraflores . If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a ...
Pagina 16
... president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of ...
... president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of ...
Pagina 18
... president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Matco , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the- Morning ! Me and you , standing here , we say : " Goose and the Gander ! miles is it to London town ? if your ...
... president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Matco , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the- Morning ! Me and you , standing here , we say : " Goose and the Gander ! miles is it to London town ? if your ...
Pagina 20
... president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm ...
... president is in flight . I suppose Bob's information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet . Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and besides , everybody would have heard the news . I'm ...
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