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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. [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 ...
Cabbages and Kings is a quotation from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and may refer to: . Cabbages and Kings, a 1904 novel by O. Henry; Cabbages and Kings (Canadian TV program), a 1955 Canadian panel discussion television program which aired on CBC
The Walrus and the Carpenter speaking to the Oysters, as portrayed by illustrator John Tenniel "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his book Through the Looking-Glass, published in December 1871.
Cabbages and Kings was his first collection of stories, followed by The Four Million. The second collection opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's claim that there were "...only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest ...
Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition). In the 20th century, American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), [1] a collection of thematically related short stories inspired by his experiences in Honduras, whose economy was heavily dependent on the export of ...
Of Cabbages and Kings chronology; Face (1988) Basic Pain Basic Pleasure (1990) Hunter's Moon (1992) Basic Pain Basic Pleasure is the second album by Of Cabbages and ...
Of Cabbages and Kings (1987) Face (1988) Basic Pain Basic Pleasure (1990) Face is the debut album of Of Cabbages and Kings, released by Purge/Sound League in 1988.
Of Cabbages and Kings may refer to Of Cabbages and Kings (album) , 1967 album by English folk rock duo Chad & Jeremy Of Cabbages and Kings (band) , an American noise rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1985