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 69
... speak to his friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. ” Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a ...
... speak to his friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. ” Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a ...
Pagina 71
... 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 very simple . As an accred- ited spokesman , I promise that our ...
... 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 very simple . As an accred- ited spokesman , I promise that our ...
Pagina 73
... speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are there any inducements ... speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ...
... speak of , no amusements . Rather unmoral . That's an offhand sketch , of course . " " Are there any inducements ... speaking as if to herself , and with a slight frown , " that there were towns on this coast of beauty and importance ...
Pagina 81
... speak of its interior with hands uplifted in admiration . There are floors polished like mirrors and covered with hand - woven Indian rugs of silk fibre , tall orna- ments and pictures , musical instruments and papered walls " figure ...
... speak of its interior with hands uplifted in admiration . There are floors polished like mirrors and covered with hand - woven Indian rugs of silk fibre , tall orna- ments and pictures , musical instruments and papered walls " figure ...
Pagina 94
... speaking of cleaned up $ 288 ; and then he went away , because he knew that when it came time to wind watches in Little Rock an entomologist would be needed , and he wasn't one . " So , as I say , Henry had $ 360 , and I had $ 288 . The ...
... speaking of cleaned up $ 288 ; and then he went away , because he knew that when it came time to wind watches in Little Rock an entomologist would be needed , and he wasn't one . " So , as I say , Henry had $ 360 , and I had $ 288 . The ...
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