Description: "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, the Republic of Anchuria. It takes it's title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" featured in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass". It's plot contains elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings.It was inspired by the characters and situations O. henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s. "The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus—but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity." The New York Times Book Review, Dec 17, 1904 Shipping will combine automatically as long as you wait until you finish shopping to make payment.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Year Printed: 1923
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature
Binding: Hardcover
Region: Republic of Anchuria
Illustrator: lithographs
Author: O. Henry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Personalized: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Character Family: various
Signed: No
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Special Attributes: Illustrated
