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 100
... cocoanut , and pour in on the juice of it French brandy and other adjuvants . We had them and other things . " Mine and Henry's money was counterfeit . Everything was on Homer P. Mellinger . That man could find rolls of bills concealed ...
... cocoanut , and pour in on the juice of it French brandy and other adjuvants . We had them and other things . " Mine and Henry's money was counterfeit . Everything was on Homer P. Mellinger . That man could find rolls of bills concealed ...
Pagina 176
... cocoanut I had , and made for the railroad . I got on that hand - car and made it fly . ' Twas yet a while before daybreak when I saw the lights of Port Barrios about a mile away . I stopped the hand - car there and walked to the town ...
... cocoanut I had , and made for the railroad . I got on that hand - car and made it fly . ' Twas yet a while before daybreak when I saw the lights of Port Barrios about a mile away . I stopped the hand - car there and walked to the town ...
Pagina 255
... cocoanut palms when Billy Keogh came back from Casa Mo- He nodded to the artist's questioning gaze ; and lay down on a cot with his hands under the back of his head . rena . " I saw him . He paid the money like a little man . They didn ...
... cocoanut palms when Billy Keogh came back from Casa Mo- He nodded to the artist's questioning gaze ; and lay down on a cot with his hands under the back of his head . rena . " I saw him . He paid the money like a little man . They didn ...
Pagina 293
... cocoanut palm during his lonely night vigil on the beach . These things were promised ; but a bigger thing yet remains to be accomplished - the clearing up of a seeming wrong that has been done according to the array of chronicled facts ...
... cocoanut palm during his lonely night vigil on the beach . These things were promised ; but a bigger thing yet remains to be accomplished - the clearing up of a seeming wrong that has been done according to the array of chronicled facts ...
Pagina 297
... , but my play was to get the cash . They gen- erally give up if you strike ' em when they're tired and rattled and short on nerve . " After dark I sat under a cocoanut tree on the beach for a while , and then I walked around Two Recalls ...
... , but my play was to get the cash . They gen- erally give up if you strike ' em when they're tired and rattled and short on nerve . " After dark I sat under a cocoanut tree on the beach for a while , and then I walked around Two Recalls ...
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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