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 73
... smiling . " A banana town , as they 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 ...
... smiling . " A banana town , as they 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 ...
Pagina 74
... a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ruffianly behaviour with the basest accusations ; and yet " she hesitated , as if to reconsider 74 Cabbages and Kings.
... a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ruffianly behaviour with the basest accusations ; and yet " she hesitated , as if to reconsider 74 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 82
... smiles of lovely woman that had driven Jolinny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his ...
... smiles of lovely woman that had driven Jolinny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his ...
Pagina 87
... smiling . " The expense account is what you want . It is supposed to have a slight elasticity . The ' station- ery ' items are sometimes carelessly audited by the State Department . " " We're wasting our time , " said Keogh . " This man ...
... smiling . " The expense account is what you want . It is supposed to have a slight elasticity . The ' station- ery ' items are sometimes carelessly audited by the State Department . " " We're wasting our time , " said Keogh . " This man ...
Pagina 119
... smile and a shrug that he had picked up from the natives . " Americano , though I am , they would have me in the calaboza in half an hour if they knew we had appropriated that valise . No ; we must appear as ignorant about the money as ...
... smile and a shrug that he had picked up from the natives . " Americano , though I am , they would have me in the calaboza in half an hour if they knew we had appropriated that valise . No ; we must appear as ignorant about the money as ...
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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