O Henry

Cabbages and Kings O Henry

Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel composed of intertwined tales, written by O. Henry and set in a fictional Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter," which appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements from the poem: shoes and boats and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. He was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s.

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