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 41
... turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still ...
... turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it became a mere speck , doubtfully discerned at irregular intervals ; and then the mystery of it was swallowed up by the greater mystery of the ocean . Geddie stood still ...
Pagina 55
... turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly up and addressed the doc- tor in Spanish . He was yellowish - brown , like an over - ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a ...
... turned to enter the pulperia a native man , barefoot , glided noiselessly up and addressed the doc- tor in Spanish . He was yellowish - brown , like an over - ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a ...
Pagina 64
... " shrieked the sentinel , wrestling prodigiously with his lengthy musket . " Americano , " growled Goodwin , without turning his head , and passed on , unhalted . To the right he turned , and to the left 64 Cabbages and Kings.
... " shrieked the sentinel , wrestling prodigiously with his lengthy musket . " Americano , " growled Goodwin , without turning his head , and passed on , unhalted . To the right he turned , and to the left 64 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 65
O. Henry. To the right he turned , and to the left up the street that ultimately reached the Plaza Nacional . When within the toss of a cigar stump from the in- tersecting Street of the Holy Sepulchre , he stopped suddenly in the pathway ...
O. Henry. To the right he turned , and to the left up the street that ultimately reached the Plaza Nacional . When within the toss of a cigar stump from the in- tersecting Street of the Holy Sepulchre , he stopped suddenly in the pathway ...
Pagina 69
... turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand ...
... turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand ...
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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