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 38
... land , where time seemed so redun- dant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn ...
... land , where time seemed so redun- dant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn ...
Pagina 40
... land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal one . He had attained a Paradise without a ser- pent . His Eve would be indeed a ...
... land , ever to live and lie reclined " seemed to him , as it has seemed to many mariners , the best as well as the easiest . His future would be an ideal one . He had attained a Paradise without a ser- pent . His Eve would be indeed a ...
Pagina 51
... land in Coralio . An investor now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is a harbour . " " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , " said Smith . " Any ...
... land in Coralio . An investor now and then tourists and sight - seers generally go further down the coast to one of the larger towns where there is a harbour . " " I see a ship out there loading up with bananas , " said Smith . " Any ...
Pagina 59
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 64
... land's end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be coming soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare ...
... land's end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be coming soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare ...
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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