CABBAGES AND KINGS
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Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and published by McClure, Phillips, and Co. The novel is set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s.
Quoting the New York Times Book Review of December 17, 1904:
"The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. ... Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus—but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity."
The novel has been adapted for film four times, three times in the USSR and once in Russia.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
$11.30