Cabbages and Kings (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Cabbages and Kings The oral tradition crops up regularly as tales told by characters (the Phonograph and the Graft, The Shamrock and the Palm) and as interpolations that scarcely forward the plot (the two pairs of stories The Admiral, The Flag Paramount and Dicky, Rouge et These are not gratuitous paddings: they are all parables of lost integrity regained. For 0. Henry they were the most important part of his text, and they are all variants of his own compromised morality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |