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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 ...
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]
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
The Walrus said To talk of many things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings Callo-Callay No work today! We're cabbages and kings Oh, uh, Oysters, come and walk with us The day is warm and bright A pleasant walk A pleasant talk Would be a sheer delight Yes, should we ...
The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. in New York. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem".
As shoppers line up for Black Friday, whether online or in person, be thankful that those lovable, squeezable Cabbage Patch Kids are not atop the wish lists of most kids, like they were this time ...
In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–1897 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement. [34] Bankocracy
Cabbages and Kings (Post Hill Press, 2013) ISBN 9781618689832 (eBook edition only) – a novella Mrs. Penngelli and the Pirate (Post Hill Press, 2013) ISBN 9781618689856 (eBook edition only) – a novella