Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews, 1916 - 312 pagine A 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. |
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Pagina 89
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
Pagina 112
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
Pagina 126
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
Pagina 146
... mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth nd ba thirrin maken for an throug The ttle of sha Fine . closel away It 1 t T 1 e of the tropics overflowed the 146 Cabbages and Kings.
... mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth nd ba thirrin maken for an throug The ttle of sha Fine . closel away It 1 t T 1 e of the tropics overflowed the 146 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 147
O. Henry. 1 t T 1 e of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself in the fallow waters . Silently the sloop entered there , and met a deeper silence . Brilliant with greens and ochres and floral scarlets , the umbrageous mouth ...
O. Henry. 1 t T 1 e of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself in the fallow waters . Silently the sloop entered there , and met a deeper silence . Brilliant with greens and ochres and floral scarlets , the umbrageous mouth ...
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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 Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla