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 66
... a verree leetle house in a dark place . Carramba ! el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
... a verree leetle house in a dark place . Carramba ! el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known - but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 67
O. Henry. shave a man and not see his face ? This gold piece he gave me , and said it was to be all quite still . I think , Don Frank , there is what you call a chip over the bug . " " Have you ever seen President Miraflores be- fore ...
O. Henry. shave a man and not see his face ? This gold piece he gave me , and said it was to be all quite still . I think , Don Frank , there is what you call a chip over the bug . " " Have you ever seen President Miraflores be- fore ...
Pagina 76
... face . The valise opened wide to a powerful , sidelong wrench . Goodwin dragged out two or three articles of clothing , exposing the bulk of its contents package after package of tightly packed United States bank and treasury notes of ...
... face . The valise opened wide to a powerful , sidelong wrench . Goodwin dragged out two or three articles of clothing , exposing the bulk of its contents package after package of tightly packed United States bank and treasury notes of ...
Pagina 82
... face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing ...
... face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at Coralio seemed to offer a retreat suffi- ciently removed and romantic enough to inject the necessary drama into the pastoral scenes of Dales- burg life . It was while playing ...
Pagina 106
... face toward the secretary man . " Do the American señors understand Spanish ? ' he asks in his native accents . 66 66 " They do not , ' says Mellinger . " Then listen , ' goes on the Latin man , prompt . " The musics are of sufficient ...
... face toward the secretary man . " Do the American señors understand Spanish ? ' he asks in his native accents . 66 66 " They do not , ' says Mellinger . " Then listen , ' goes on the Latin man , prompt . " The musics are of sufficient ...
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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