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 - gentleman in Number 10. " 66 - 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 - gentleman in Number 10. " 66 - 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 . Seņor Goodwin was also in the room when they entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing . Madame ...
... republic , they found a man lying dead , with a pistol clutched in his hand . Beside him was a young woman , weeping sorely . Seņor Goodwin was also in the room when they entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing . Madame ...
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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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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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