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 57
... soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this after- noon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three - Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
... soon as she gets her bananas loaded , which will be about daylight in the morning , and she got everything ready this after- noon . No , sir , there was no passenger list . Like that Three - Star ? A French schooner landed two ...
Pagina 64
... soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come ...
... soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed heavenward . There was a law that no civilian might come ...
Pagina 89
... soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the rail- ing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ! " The sloop was now ...
... soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the rail- ing , and his ear - rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot . " Mel - lin - ger a - hoy ! " The sloop was now ...
Pagina 111
... soon as I can make a stake- honest . ' " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " I ...
... soon as I can make a stake- honest . ' " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " I ...
Pagina 116
... soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from the American ...
... soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from the American ...
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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