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 81
... the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms are fluttering in the breeze , bidding us to sport and gaiety . V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO THE United States of America Caught 81.
... the money that Frank Good- win dropped into the orange - tree . But that shall come later ; for the palms are fluttering in the breeze , bidding us to sport and gaiety . V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO THE United States of America Caught 81.
Pagina 82
O. Henry. V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO THE United States of America , after looking over its stock of consular timber , selected Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood , of Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned ...
O. Henry. V CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO THE United States of America , after looking over its stock of consular timber , selected Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood , of Dalesburg , Alabama , for a successor to Willard Geddie , resigned ...
Pagina 83
... the lists as a rival to the high - born Atwood , One night Johnny propounded to Rosine a ques- tion that is considered of much importance by the young of the human species . The accessories were all Cupid's Exile Number Two 83.
... the lists as a rival to the high - born Atwood , One night Johnny propounded to Rosine a ques- tion that is considered of much importance by the young of the human species . The accessories were all Cupid's Exile Number Two 83.
Pagina 85
... number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . And then , of course , he had to be Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
... number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . And then , of course , he had to be Cupid's Exile Number Two 85.
Pagina 87
... . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul , and immediately he fell asleep . The cheerful tintypist pursued his intimacy with Johnny in spite of open charges that he did so Cupid's Exile Number Two 87.
... . " " This is the country for me , " murmured the con- sul , and immediately he fell asleep . The cheerful tintypist pursued his intimacy with Johnny in spite of open charges that he did so Cupid's Exile Number Two 87.
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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