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 195
... steps of " Beelzebub , " whom desperation had almost incited to attempt an addi- tional " loan . " Three drinking shops the forlorn one next visited in succession . In all of these his money , his credit and his welcome had long since ...
... steps of " Beelzebub , " whom desperation had almost incited to attempt an addi- tional " loan . " Three drinking shops the forlorn one next visited in succession . In all of these his money , his credit and his welcome had long since ...
Pagina 196
... steps Blythe now moved rap- idly through the town by way of its landward en- virons . He passed through the squalid quarters of the improvident negroes and on beyond the picturesque shacks of the poorer mestizos . From many points along ...
... steps Blythe now moved rap- idly through the town by way of its landward en- virons . He passed through the squalid quarters of the improvident negroes and on beyond the picturesque shacks of the poorer mestizos . From many points along ...
Pagina 197
... steps , and flourished a hand . " Good morning , Blythe , " said Goodwin , looking " Come in and have a chair . Anything I can do for you ? " up . " I want to speak to you in private . " Goodwin nodded at his secretary , who strolled ...
... steps , and flourished a hand . " Good morning , Blythe , " said Goodwin , looking " Come in and have a chair . Anything I can do for you ? " up . " I want to speak to you in private . " Goodwin nodded at his secretary , who strolled ...
Pagina 203
... steps and turned his face toward the town . 66 99 In the edge of the cool banana grove Beelzebub halted , and snapped the tongue of his belt buckle into another hole . " I couldn't do it , ” he explained , feverishly , to the waving ...
... steps and turned his face toward the town . 66 99 In the edge of the cool banana grove Beelzebub halted , and snapped the tongue of his belt buckle into another hole . " I couldn't do it , ” he explained , feverishly , to the waving ...
Pagina 223
... step and they sat down , with shrill cries of alarm , to pick at the new and painful insects that had stung them upon the feet . Qué picadores diablos ! " they screeched to one an- other across the narrow ways . Some tried the grass 66 ...
... step and they sat down , with shrill cries of alarm , to pick at the new and painful insects that had stung them upon the feet . Qué picadores diablos ! " they screeched to one an- other across the narrow ways . Some tried the grass 66 ...
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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 Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla