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 49
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
... friend ; he may get him , instanter , to a monastery or a dance hall ; he may elope , or hang himself or he may write a song or poem , or kiss his wife unasked , or give his funds to the search of a microbe . Then the peripheral soul ...
Pagina 52
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
... friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepul- chre . A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low , rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered ...
Pagina 69
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. " Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
... friends ? Está bueno . Room Numero 9 and room Numero 10. " Goodwin loosened in his coat pocket the American revolver that he carried , and ascended the steep , dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp ...
Pagina 85
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . And then , of course , he had to be Cupid's ...
... friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent . And then , of course , he had to be Cupid's ...
Pagina 100
... friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agi- tated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in ...
... friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agi- tated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune . The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in ...
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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