Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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Pagina 18
... president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the- Morning ! Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' How many miles is it to London town ...
... president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : ' Fox - in - the- Morning ! Me and you , standing here , we say : ' Goose and the Gander ! ' How many miles is it to London town ...
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 ...
Pagina 21
... president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is ...
... president man with Lord knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in one hand , and this muslin siren in the other , galloping down hill on a sym- pathetic mule amid songbirds and flowers ! And here is Billy Keogh , because he is ...
Pagina 22
... president man is in luck . But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ...
... president man is in luck . But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the work . " And Keogh plunged for the rear of the " gallery , " whistling gaily in a spon- taneous way that belied his recent sigh over the ...
Pagina 23
... President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . On his way ...
... President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach - the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . On his way ...
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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 Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution 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 tintypes tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla