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 54
... tell concerning the operation of trepanning which no listener had ever allowed him to conclude , and that he believed in brandy as a prophylactic ; and the spe- cial points of interest possessed by Dr. Gregg will have become exhausted ...
... tell concerning the operation of trepanning which no listener had ever allowed him to conclude , and that he believed in brandy as a prophylactic ; and the spe- cial points of interest possessed by Dr. Gregg will have become exhausted ...
Pagina 58
... tell it at the next meet- ing of the Barney O'Flynn Association , if you don't mind . But I've got one or two matters to attend to first . If I get ' em attended to in time I'll come right back and hear you spiel the rest before bedtime ...
... tell it at the next meet- ing of the Barney O'Flynn Association , if you don't mind . But I've got one or two matters to attend to first . If I get ' em attended to in time I'll come right back and hear you spiel the rest before bedtime ...
Pagina 61
... tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and ...
... tell us why he strewed so many anxious cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm that night . This he must do ; for , when he sailed away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and ...
Pagina 66
... tell . " What think you , Don Frank ! " he cried , in the universal tone of the conspirator . " I have to - night shaved la barba - what you call the ' weeskers ' of the Presidente himself , of this countree ! Consider ! He sent for me ...
... tell . " What think you , Don Frank ! " he cried , in the universal tone of the conspirator . " I have to - night shaved la barba - what you call the ' weeskers ' of the Presidente himself , of this countree ! Consider ! He sent for me ...
Pagina 71
... it possible for me to listen to you . For a second lesson in good manners , you might now tell me by whom I am being insulted . " " I am sorry , " said Goodwin , leaning one hand on the table , “ that my time is too brief Caught 71.
... it possible for me to listen to you . For a second lesson in good manners , you might now tell me by whom I am being insulted . " " I am sorry , " said Goodwin , leaning one hand on the table , “ that my time is too brief Caught 71.
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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