Cabbages and KingsA 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 39
He sat looking out through the doorway at the gigantic fire - flies traversing the
quiet streets . ... He followed a street that led him along the border of the little
plaza where a band was playing and people . were rambling , care - free and
indolent .
He sat looking out through the doorway at the gigantic fire - flies traversing the
quiet streets . ... He followed a street that led him along the border of the little
plaza where a band was playing and people . were rambling , care - free and
indolent .
Pagina 52
The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hostelry , in great disuse both by
strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . A
grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low ,
rock ...
The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hostelry , in great disuse both by
strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . A
grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low ,
rock ...
Pagina 53
As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious sidewalk
of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre , the solitary permanent guest of that decaying
hotel sat at its door , enjoying the breeze from the sea . Dr . Gregg , the ...
As the exceptional yachtsman was making his way down the precarious sidewalk
of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre , the solitary permanent guest of that decaying
hotel sat at its door , enjoying the breeze from the sea . Dr . Gregg , the ...
Pagina 63
A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the
truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced
that no precautions had been overlooked . He strolled about the streets that bore
...
A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the
truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced
that no precautions had been overlooked . He strolled about the streets that bore
...
Pagina 64
By ten o ' clock the streets were deserted . The oil lamps that had burned , a sickly
yellow , at random corners , had been extinguished by some economical civic
agent . Coralio lay sleeping calmly between toppling mountains and encroaching
...
By ten o ' clock the streets were deserted . The oil lamps that had burned , a sickly
yellow , at random corners , had been extinguished by some economical civic
agent . Coralio lay sleeping calmly between toppling mountains and encroaching
...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A.L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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