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 29
... running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country ...
... running on three sides of it . One room was the official apart- ment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a ham- mock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country ...
Pagina 34
... laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
... laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf running along the shore — and , gradually , of a white speck , growing to a 34 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 59
... runs off the reel — is that right ? " 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 ba- nana groves and in the mangrove swamps ...
... runs off the reel — is that right ? " 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 ba- nana groves and in the mangrove swamps ...
Pagina 62
... running from San Mateo to the coast had been cut far up on the mountain trail by an emissary of Zavalla's . Long before this could be repaired and word received along it from the capital the fugitives would have reached the coast and ...
... running from San Mateo to the coast had been cut far up on the mountain trail by an emissary of Zavalla's . Long before this could be repaired and word received along it from the capital the fugitives would have reached the coast and ...
Pagina 73
... run . Grass huts , ' dobes , five or six two - story houses , accommodations limited , population half - breed Spanish and Indian , Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . Rather unmoral ...
... run . Grass huts , ' dobes , five or six two - story houses , accommodations limited , population half - breed Spanish and Indian , Caribs and blackamoors . No sidewalks to speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . Rather unmoral ...
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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