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 61
... away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying Smith 61.
... away before the dawn in his yacht Rambler , he carried with him the answer to a riddle so big and preposterous that few in Anchuria had ventured even to propound it . IV CAUGHT THE plans for the detention of the flying Smith 61.
Pagina 65
... carrying a large valise , hurry down the cross- street in the direction of the beach . And Goodwin's second glance made him aware of a woman at the man's elbow on the farther side , who seemed to urge forward , if not even to assist ...
... carrying a large valise , hurry down the cross- street in the direction of the beach . And Goodwin's second glance made him aware of a woman at the man's elbow on the farther side , who seemed to urge forward , if not even to assist ...
Pagina 69
... carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind ...
... carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind ...
Pagina 80
... carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as care- fully as a woman combs her hair ; but the money was not found . So they buried the dead man , without honours ...
... carried with him , but all in vain . In Coralio Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as care- fully as a woman combs her hair ; but the money was not found . So they buried the dead man , without honours ...
Pagina 90
... carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest . " I'm no disseminator of narratives , " said Keogh . " I can use language for purposes of speech ; but when I attempt a discourse ...
... carried it around with him after- ward . " " Tell me about it , " demanded Johnny , betraying interest . " I'm no disseminator of narratives , " said Keogh . " I can use language for purposes of speech ; but when I attempt a discourse ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg 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
Brani popolari
Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.