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 88
... steamer Andador , of the Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where ...
... steamer Andador , of the Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . bright was the moonlight that the two men could see the small pebbles shining on the beach where ...
Pagina 89
... some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return trip . Like a coquettish pigeon the little boat tacked on its Cupid's Exile Number Two 89.
... some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the - coast point had come down in this sloop to catch the regular fruit steamer on its return trip . Like a coquettish pigeon the little boat tacked on its Cupid's Exile Number Two 89.
Pagina 95
... steamer for South America . " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . " Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they re- minded ...
... steamer for South America . " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . " Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they re- minded ...
Pagina 111
... 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 told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . " Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It ...
... 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 told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . " Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It ...
Pagina 135
... steamers where there was no harbour . It was through his famous skill and boldness on the sea , as well as for the pity felt for his mental imperfections , that he was recommended by the collector as a suitable custodian of the captured ...
... steamers where there was no harbour . It was through his famous skill and boldness on the sea , as well as for the pity felt for his mental imperfections , that he was recommended by the collector as a suitable custodian of the captured ...
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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