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Cabbages and Kings

AUTHORS O. Henry

Verlag: Publisher s23237

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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".
Verfügbar seit: 30.08.2022.

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