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Cabbages and kings

Author:O. Henry

Summary: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. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s

Print Book, English, 1916, ©1904

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Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co. for Review of Reviews, [Garden City, N.Y.], 1916, ©1904

Genre:short stories

Physical Description:312 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:3824099

Subjects:

American fiction

American fiction 20th century

Manners and customs

New York (N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes Romans, nouvelles, etc

New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Fiction

New York (State) New York

Roman américain 20e siècle

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Cabbages and kings.

Henry, O., 1862-1910.