Cabbages and Kings (literature)

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Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition)

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel written by O. Henry, set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria.[1] 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 

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