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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 ...
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Cabbages and Kings is a quotation from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and may refer to: Cabbages and Kings (novel) , a 1904 novel by O. Henry Cabbages and Kings (Canadian TV program) , a 1955 Canadian panel discussion television program which aired on CBC
Porter lived in Honduras for six months, until January 1897. There he became friends with Al Jennings, a notorious train robber, who later wrote a book about their friendship. [3] He holed up in a Trujillo hotel, where he wrote Cabbages and Kings, which notably coined the term "banana republic". [4]
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 ...
Captains and the Kings is a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother and baby sister, only for their parents to die shortly afterwards. Joseph Armagh befriends a ...
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Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) [1] is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has shifted gradually from non-fiction to fiction.His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for a first novel, [2] the Desmond Elliott Prize [3] and the Ondaatje Prize. [4]