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 19
O. Henry. : Y of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from ... there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of ...
O. Henry. : Y of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from ... there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves . The rest was a riot of ...
Pagina 21
... there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he ...
... there's Irish blood in your ances- try . " " I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he ...
Pagina 23
... There was little dif- ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- tation of the big American . say no . " Is there any news , Mr. " Fox - in - the - Morning " 23.
... There was little dif- ference in his manner whether he addressed women or men . Everybody in Coralio liked to receive the salu- tation of the big American . say no . " Is there any news , Mr. " Fox - in - the - Morning " 23.
Pagina 24
O. Henry. say no . " Is there any news , Mr. Goodwin ? Please don't Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange- or was it a range ? —it's hot enough . " " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win ...
O. Henry. say no . " Is there any news , Mr. Goodwin ? Please don't Isn't it warm ? I feel just like Mariana in her moated grange- or was it a range ? —it's hot enough . " " No , there's no news to tell , I believe , " said Good- win ...
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 ...
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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 tintype tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla