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 19
... sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the ...
... sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem fox to play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the ...
Pagina 31
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
... sail the next day on a six weeks ' cruise along the Central American and South American coasts and among the Bahama Is- lands . Among the guests were Mrs. Cumberland Payne and Miss Ida Payne , of Norfolk . The writer , with the fatuous ...
Pagina 57
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
... sails as soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this afternoon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three- Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
Pagina 66
... sailing have yet to be made . " At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
... sailing have yet to be made . " At that moment there came along one Estebán Delgado , a barber , an enemy to existing government , a jovial plotter against stagnation in any form . This barber was one of Coralio's saddest dogs , often ...
Pagina 88
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
... sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where the gentle surf wetted them . Then down the coast , tacking close to ...
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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 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