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 89
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
... tropics , the mystery that attends unknown sails , and the prestige of drifting music on moonlit waters gave it an anodynous charm . Johnny Atwood felt it , and thought of Dalesburg ; but as soon as Keogh's mind had ar- rived at a ...
Pagina 112
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
... tropics ever since . They say Mellinger never travelled a mile after that without his phonograph . I guess it kept him re- minded about his graft whenever he saw the siren voice of the boodler tip him the wink with a bribe in its hand ...
Pagina 126
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
... tropics , where flamed in his bosom a fire that was seldom quenched . In Coralio they called him a beachcomber ; but he was , in reality , a categorical idealist who strove to an- amorphosize the dull verities of life by the means of ...
Pagina 146
... the sea . In two hours El Nacional entered the river's mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself 146 Cabbages and Kings.
... the sea . In two hours El Nacional entered the river's mouth . The banks were crowded with a disposition of formidable trees . The sumptuous undergrowth of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself 146 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 147
O. Henry. of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself in the fallow waters . Silently the sloop entered there , and met a deeper silence . Brilliant with greens and ochres and floral scarlets , the umbrageous mouth of the Rio ...
O. Henry. of the tropics overflowed the land , and drowned itself in the fallow waters . Silently the sloop entered there , and met a deeper silence . Brilliant with greens and ochres and floral scarlets , the umbrageous mouth of the Rio ...
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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