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 23
... , " said Goodwin , taking off his hat , with his ready smile . There was little dif- ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- " Fox - in - the - Morning ' 23 99.
... , " said Goodwin , taking off his hat , with his ready smile . There was little dif- ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- " Fox - in - the - Morning ' 23 99.
Pagina 24
... there any news , Mr. Goodwin ? Please don't say no . Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange enough . " or was it a range ? —it's hot " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win , with a ...
... there any news , Mr. Goodwin ? Please don't say no . Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange enough . " or was it a range ? —it's hot " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win , with a ...
Pagina 27
... There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine harbour ...
... There is no harbour at Coralio . Vessels of the draught of the Valhalla must ride at anchor a mile from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine harbour ...
Pagina 37
... There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably ...
... There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably ...
Pagina 40
... there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com- pleteness and sweetness of her surrender . Here was surely a heart made for ...
... there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com- pleteness and sweetness of her surrender . Here was surely a heart made for ...
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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.