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 65
... street that ultimately reached the Plaza Nacional . When within the toss of a cigar stump from the in- tersecting Street of the Holy Sepulchre , he stopped suddenly in the pathway . He saw the form of a tall man , clothed in black and ...
... street that ultimately reached the Plaza Nacional . When within the toss of a cigar stump from the in- tersecting Street of the Holy Sepulchre , he stopped suddenly in the pathway . He saw the form of a tall man , clothed in black and ...
Pagina 66
... street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . " So , then , their arrangements ...
... street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show between the slats of the jalousies in the upper story of the hotel . " They have engaged rooms , " said Goodwin to himself . " So , then , their arrangements ...
Pagina 67
... street , and observing whether anyone should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from ...
... street , and observing whether anyone should attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from ...
Pagina 75
... streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had ...
... streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had ...
Pagina 78
... , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the street , and official orders rang out on the still air . Goodwin had 78 Cabbages and Kings.
... , at the sound of the shot , had raised his voice ; and the shot itself had aroused half the town . A pattering of feet came up the street , and official orders rang out on the still air . Goodwin had 78 Cabbages and Kings.
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Parole e frasi comuni
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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg 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
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.