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 63
... shoes , hurried by , balancing his long gun like a lance in one hand . From every density of the foliage the giant tree frogs sounded their loud and irritating clatter . Further out , where the by - ways perished at Caught 63.
... shoes , hurried by , balancing his long gun like a lance in one hand . From every density of the foliage the giant tree frogs sounded their loud and irritating clatter . Further out , where the by - ways perished at Caught 63.
Pagina 70
... surrender . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
... surrender . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 71
O. Henry. garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing foot- " I speak for a considerable majority of the people - demand the return of the stolen funds belonging to them . Our terms go very little further than that . They are ...
O. Henry. garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing foot- " I speak for a considerable majority of the people - demand the return of the stolen funds belonging to them . Our terms go very little further than that . They are ...
Pagina 83
... shoe market , and his unparalleled feat of elevating the most despised and useless weed in his own country from obscurity to be a valuable product in international commerce . The trouble began , as trouble often begins instead of ending ...
... shoe market , and his unparalleled feat of elevating the most despised and useless weed in his own country from obscurity to be a valuable product in international commerce . The trouble began , as trouble often begins instead of ending ...
Pagina 135
... shoes , philandered with papers on an antique desk . A parrot , perched on a pen rack , seasoned the official tedium with a fire of choice Castilian imprecations . Two rooms opened into the collector's . In one the clerical force of ...
... shoes , philandered with papers on an antique desk . A parrot , perched on a pen rack , seasoned the official tedium with a fire of choice Castilian imprecations . Two rooms opened into the collector's . In one the clerical force of ...
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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 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
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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.