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 11
... street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! " The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The ...
... street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! " The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The ...
Pagina 12
O. Henry. 66 main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
O. Henry. 66 main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gath- ered at street ...
Pagina 13
... street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was ...
... street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was ...
Pagina 22
... street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks ...
... street into a much narrower one that intersected it at a right angle . These side streets were covered by a growth of thick , rank grass , which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the police . Stone side- walks ...
Pagina 23
... street running along the beach the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan ...
... street running along the beach the Broadway of Coralio were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place . - On his way Goodwin passed the house of Bernard Brannigan ...
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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