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Cabbages and Kings

By O. Henry

2020-03-13 19:24:38

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and 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 ... Read more
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and 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. Less

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File size400.944 KB
Print pages256
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-11-04
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781406923742
Author
William Sydney Porter (11 Sep 1862 – 5 June 1910) better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer who wrote more than 381 short stories. Porter's works include "The Gift of...

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