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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 ...
Daniel Mayer Selznick, the last immediate member of a family that produced some of Hollywood's most iconic films, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 88. Selznick died at the Motion Picture ...
Cabbages and Kings: O. Henry: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass ("The Walrus and the Carpenter") [2] Captains Courageous: Rudyard Kipling: traditional "The ballad of Mary Ambree" Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort" A Catskill Eagle: Robert B. Parker: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: The Children of Men: P. D ...
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 ...
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".