Cabbages and Kings (literature)

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.

Cabbages and Kings is not a novel and not quite a collection of short stories. In the last chapter of the book (18), "The Vitagraphoscope," O. Henry suggests it's a vaudeville which is "intrinsically episodic and discontinuous." Some characters do their turn – the vaudeville term for an act – and disappear, and others reappear if only briefly. It adds up to a book, a good read, that readers need to take on O. Henry's terms.

Chapters:

THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER
  1. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"
  2. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE
  3. SMITH
  4. IV. CAUGHT
  5. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO
  6. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT
  7. MONEY MAZE
  8. THE ADMIRAL
  9. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT
  10. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM
  11. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE
  12. SHOES
  13. SHIPS
  14. MASTERS OF ARTS
  15. DICKY
  16. ROUGE ET NOIR
  17. TWO RECALLS
  18. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE

References

  1. ↑ Henry, O (1904). Cabbages and Kings. ISBN 9781438790787.


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