Introduction

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. It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic".

Table of Contents

I. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"

II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE

III. SMITH

IV. CAUGHT

V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO

VI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT

VII. MONEY MAZE

VIII. THE ADMIRAL

IX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT

X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM

XI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODEX

XII. SHOES

XIII. SHIPS

XIV. MASTERS OF ARTS

XV. DICKY

XVI. ROUGE ET NOIR

XVII. TWO RECALLS

XVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE