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 70
... took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar between his fin- gers . He took this familiar course because he was sure that preliminaries would be ...
... took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar between his fin- gers . He took this familiar course because he was sure that preliminaries would be ...
Pagina 75
... took a step toward the door , but Goodwin stayed her by a light touch upon her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly ...
... took a step toward the door , but Goodwin stayed her by a light touch upon her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly ...
Pagina 85
... took a fruit steamer for the coast of Anchuria . When the new consul arrived in Coralio the strangeness of the scenes diverted him much . He was only twenty - two ; and the grief of youth is not worn like a garment as it is by older men ...
... took a fruit steamer for the coast of Anchuria . When the new consul arrived in Coralio the strangeness of the scenes diverted him much . He was only twenty - two ; and the grief of youth is not worn like a garment as it is by older men ...
Pagina 94
... took to it freely , being fond of machinery of all kinds . " " The Latin races , ' says Henry , explaining easy in the idioms he learned at college , ' are peculiarly adapted to be victims of the phonograph . They have the artistic ...
... took to it freely , being fond of machinery of all kinds . " " The Latin races , ' says Henry , explaining easy in the idioms he learned at college , ' are peculiarly adapted to be victims of the phonograph . They have the artistic ...
Pagina 95
... took the T. and P. for New Or- lcans . From that celebrated centre of molasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . " Twas a palatable enough ...
... took the T. and P. for New Or- lcans . From that celebrated centre of molasses and disfranchised coon songs we took a steamer for South America . " We landed at Solitas , forty miles up the coast from here . " Twas a palatable enough ...
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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