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 73
... republic . I was ad- vised by wire of the movements of the in Number 10. " gentleman " May I ask you two or three questions ? I be- lieve you to be a man more apt to be truthful than timid . What sort of a town is this- Coralio , I ...
... republic . I was ad- vised by wire of the movements of the in Number 10. " gentleman " May I ask you two or three questions ? I be- lieve you to be a man more apt to be truthful than timid . What sort of a town is this- Coralio , I ...
Pagina 101
... republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the salad dressing just the same . There isn't a law goes before Congress , there isn't a concession granted , there isn't an import duty ...
... republic ; and my duties are running it . I'm not headlined in the bills , but I'm the mustard in the salad dressing just the same . There isn't a law goes before Congress , there isn't a concession granted , there isn't an import duty ...
Pagina 115
... republic , they found a man lying dead , with a pistol clutched in his hand . Beside him was , a young woman , weeping sorely . Señor Goodwin was also in the room when they entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing ...
... republic , they found a man lying dead , with a pistol clutched in his hand . Beside him was , a young woman , weeping sorely . Señor Goodwin was also in the room when they entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing ...
Pagina 124
... Republic of Anchuria . If President Miraflores decamped with any funds belonging to the treasury of this country , or to himself , or to any- one else , I saw no trace of it in the house or elsewhere , at that time or at any other ...
... Republic of Anchuria . If President Miraflores decamped with any funds belonging to the treasury of this country , or to himself , or to any- one else , I saw no trace of it in the house or elsewhere , at that time or at any other ...
Pagina 131
... now , according to law , the property of the republic . The Collector of Customs , in making his report , departed from the conventional forms so far as to suggest that the confiscated vessel be converted to the use The Admiral 131.
... now , according to law , the property of the republic . The Collector of Customs , in making his report , departed from the conventional forms so far as to suggest that the confiscated vessel be converted to the use The Admiral 131.
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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.