O Henry

Cabbages and Kings Illustrated O Henry

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel comprised of interlinked short stories, composed by O. Henry and set in an imaginary Central American nation called the Republic of Anchuria.[1] It takes its title from the sonnet "The Walrus and the Carpenter", included in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains celebrated components in the sonnet: shoes and ships and fixing wax, cabbages and rulers. It was motivated by the characters and circumstances that O. Henry experienced in Honduras in the late 1890s.