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".Table of Contents:I. 	"FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"II. 	THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLEIII. 	SMITHIV. 	CAUGHTV. 	CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWOVI. 	THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFTVII. 	MONEY MAZEVIII. 	THE ADMIRALIX. 	THE FLAG PARAMOUNTX. 	THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALMXI. 	THE REMNANTS OF THE CODEXII. 	SHOESXIII. 	SHIPSXIV. 	MASTERS OF ARTSXV. 	DICKYXVI. 	ROUGE ET NOIRXVII. 	TWO RECALLSXVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE

Sofia Bagdasarova

Cabbages and Kings

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". Table of Contents: I. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING" II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE III. SMITH IV. CAUGHT V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO VI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT VII. MONEY MAZE VIII. THE ADMIRAL IX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE XII. SHOES XIII. SHIPS XIV. MASTERS OF ARTS XV. DICKY XVI. ROUGE ET NOIR XVII. TWO RECALLS XVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE

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