
Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel written by O. Henry, 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.
The novel contains various short stories, all of which occur in Anchuria, and are connected to each other.
Chapters:
THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER
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
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
- CABBAGES AND KINGS
- by
- O. HENRY
- Author of "The Four Million," "The Voice of the City," "The Trimmed Lamp," "Strictly Business," "Whirligigs," Etc.
- CONTENTS
- THE PROEM
- 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
- The Vitagraphoscope
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