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 52
... trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side ...
... trees are . " The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hos- telry , in great disuse both by strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side ...
Pagina 54
... -I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a 54 Cabbages and Kings.
... -I mean the consul , told me you hung out at this caravansary . My name's Smith ; and I came in a yacht . Taking a cruise around , looking at the mon- keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a 54 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 55
O. Henry. keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising quickly ...
O. Henry. keys and pineapple trees . Come inside and have a drink , Doc . This café looks on the blink , but I guess it can set out something wet . " " I will join you , sir , in just a taste of brandy , " said Dr. Gregg , rising quickly ...
Pagina 59
... tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter . Twice had he ...
... tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated his interest upon the innocent fruiter . Twice had he ...
Pagina 60
... there , no footprints to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree , 60 Cabbages and Kings.
... there , no footprints to show where he had followed the trail of his mystery on the sands of Coralio that night . He came ; he spake his strange jargon of the asphalt and the cafés ; he sat under the cocoanut - tree , 60 Cabbages and Kings.
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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