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 74
... turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ruffianly behaviour with the basest accusations ; and yet " she hesitated , as if to ...
... turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow yrir ruffianly behaviour with the basest accusations ; and yet " she hesitated , as if to ...
Pagina 75
... turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark ...
... turned to look at him in the streets . He was the viking sort of man , big , good- looking , and with an air of kindly truculence . She was dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark ...
Pagina 78
... turning to the all - forgiving , all - comforting earthly consoler - to have made her call out from that bloody and dis- honoured room- " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the ...
... turning to the all - forgiving , all - comforting earthly consoler - to have made her call out from that bloody and dis- honoured room- " Oh , mother , mother , mother ! " But there was an alarm outside . The barber , Estebán , at the ...
Pagina 110
... turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us , but the conspirator gang was gone . But we recaptured the phonograph with honours of war , and marched back to the cuartel with it playing ' All Coons Look Alike to Me ...
... turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us , but the conspirator gang was gone . But we recaptured the phonograph with honours of war , and marched back to the cuartel with it playing ' All Coons Look Alike to Me ...
Pagina 137
... as my instructions go . " Felipe took the commission that the collector handed to him . He gazed through the open window at the sea for a moment , with his customary expres- sion of deep but vain pondering . Then he turned The Admiral 137.
... as my instructions go . " Felipe took the commission that the collector handed to him . He gazed through the open window at the sea for a moment , with his customary expres- sion of deep but vain pondering . Then he turned The Admiral 137.
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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