Cabbages and Kings
| By: | O. Henry |
| Publisher: | Read Books Ltd. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781443781787 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781473374492 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic".Table of Contents:I. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLEIII. SMITHIV. CAUGHTV. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWOVI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFTVII. MONEY MAZEVIII. THE ADMIRALIX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNTX. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALMXI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODEXII. SHOESXIII. SHIPSXIV. MASTERS OF ARTSXV. DICKYXVI. ROUGE ET NOIRXVII. TWO RECALLSXVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE