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 60
... waiting for something to occur , which was foreign to the air of Coralio . Like some passing bird of brilliant plumage , Smith alights on this palmy shore but to preen his wings for an instant and then to fly away upon silent pin- ions ...
... waiting for something to occur , which was foreign to the air of Coralio . Like some passing bird of brilliant plumage , Smith alights on this palmy shore but to preen his wings for an instant and then to fly away upon silent pin- ions ...
Pagina 61
... waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he ...
... waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In the nick of time he shall come to tell us why he ...
Pagina 88
... waiting for the night to cool . Off- shore lay the fruit steamer Andador , of the Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two ...
... waiting for the night to cool . Off- shore lay the fruit steamer Andador , of the Vesuvius line , full - laden and scheduled to sail at six in the morning . There were no loiterers on the beach . So bright was the moonlight that the two ...
Pagina 96
... waiting for me , and your machine for making Hamburger steak out of the hitherto re- spected art of music will be playing " There's no place like home . " " Henry skinned a twenty off his roll , and received from the Bureau of Mercenary ...
... waiting for me , and your machine for making Hamburger steak out of the hitherto re- spected art of music will be playing " There's no place like home . " " Henry skinned a twenty off his roll , and received from the Bureau of Mercenary ...
Pagina 111
... beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " " I told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . ' Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It stays behind , ' I says , ' The Phonograph and the Graft ...
... beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain grinned when he saw us . " " I told you you'd be waiting , ' he says . ' Where's the Hamburger machine ? ' " It stays behind , ' I says , ' The Phonograph and the Graft ...
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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 Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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