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 13
... Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You ...
... Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You ...
Pagina 14
... Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed ...
... Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist . There existed ...
Pagina 16
... Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle " was 66 six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party its way now made a pacific one would ...
... Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle " was 66 six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party its way now made a pacific one would ...
Pagina 19
... Coralio ; the third penetrated to Solitas . Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had ...
... Coralio ; the third penetrated to Solitas . Between the sea and the foothills stretched the five miles breadth of allu- vial coast . Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth . Spaces here and there had ...
Pagina 23
... Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden building , two stories ...
... Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden building , two stories ...
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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