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 46
... shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit ...
... shore and row them out to the steamer . The Karlsefin had no passenger list , and was soon done with the attention of the authorities . The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit ...
Pagina 47
... shore he had affronted the deck of his correct vessel clad in a pearl - gray derby , a gay plaid suit and vaudeville neckwear . Men owning pleasure yachts generally harmonize better with them . Smith looked business , but he was no ...
... shore he had affronted the deck of his correct vessel clad in a pearl - gray derby , a gay plaid suit and vaudeville neckwear . Men owning pleasure yachts generally harmonize better with them . Smith looked business , but he was no ...
Pagina 59
... shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had ...
... shore . On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoa- nut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had ...
Pagina 60
... shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment . There was in the atmosphere a hint of ...
... shore - following Calle Grande three other sailors swaggered with their cues around Coralio's solitary billiard - table . The boat lay there as if under orders to be ready for use at any moment . There was in the atmosphere a hint of ...
Pagina 62
... along it from the capital the fugitives would have reached the coast and the question of escape or capture been solved . Goodwin had stationed armed sentinels at fre- quent intervals along the shore for a mile in each 62 V.
... along it from the capital the fugitives would have reached the coast and the question of escape or capture been solved . Goodwin had stationed armed sentinels at fre- quent intervals along the shore for a mile in each 62 V.
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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