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{{Short description|1904 novel written by O. Henry}}
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[[File:Cover of Cabbages and Kings, 1904 edition.jpg|thumbnail|Cover of ''Cabbages and Kings'' (1904 edition)]]
[[File:Cover of Cabbages and Kings, 1904 edition.jpg|thumbnail|Title page of ''Cabbages and Kings'' (1904 edition)]]


'''''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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Henry|first=O|title=Cabbages and Kings|year=1904|isbn=9781438790787|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2777}}</ref> 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 [[History of Honduras (1838&ndash;1932)|Honduras in the late 1890s]].
'''''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]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Henry |first=O. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2777 |title=Cabbages and Kings |year=1904 |isbn=9781438790787}}</ref> 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 [[History of Honduras (1838–1932)|Honduras in the late 1890s]].


==Chapters==
==Chapters==
::The Proem: By the Carpenter<ref name="book">{{cite web|title=Complete book - Of cabbages and kings|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2777/2777-h/2777-h.htm|website=www.gutenberg.org|publisher=Project Gutenberg|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>
::The Proem: By the Carpenter<ref name="book">{{cite web |title=Complete book - Of cabbages and kings |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2777/2777-h/2777-h.htm |access-date=30 January 2018 |website=gutenberg.org |publisher=Project Gutenberg}}</ref>
{{ordered list|list_style_type=upper-roman
{{ordered list
| list_style_type = upper-roman|"Fox-in-the-Morning"|The Lotus and the Bottle|Smith|Caught|Cupid's Exile Number Two|T||The Admiral|The Flag Paramount|The Shamrock and the Palm|The Remnants of the Code|Shoes|Ships|Masters of Arts|Dicky|Rouge et Noir|Two Recalls|The Vitagraphoscope
|"Fox-in-the-Morning"
|The Lotus and the Bottle
|Smith
|Caught
|Cupid's Exile Number Two
|The Phonograph and the Graft
|Money Maze
|The Admiral
|The Flag Paramount
|The Shamrock and the Palm
|The Remnants of the Code
|Shoes
|Ships
|Masters of Arts
|Dicky
|Rouge et Noir
|Two Recalls
|The Vitagraphoscope
}}
}}


''Cabbages and Kings'' can be classified as a [[fix-up]] novel. In the last chapter of the book, "The Vitagraphoscope", O. Henry suggests that it is a "vaudeville" that is "intrinsically episodic and discontinuous". Some characters do their turn — the vaudeville term for an act — and disappear, and others reappear if only briefly.
''Cabbages and Kings'' can be classified as a [[fix-up]] novel. In the last chapter of the book, "The Vitagraphoscope", O. Henry suggests that it is a "[[vaudeville]]" that is "intrinsically episodic and discontinuous". Some characters do their turn—the vaudeville term for an act—and disappear, and others reappear if only briefly.


==New York Times Book Review, Dec 17 1904==
==New York Times Book Review, December 17 1904==
"The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. ... Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus—but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity."<ref>{{cite web|title=Cabbages and Kings|url=https://librivox.org/cabbages-and-kings-by-o-henry/|website=LibriVox|access-date=20 December 2017}}</ref>
"The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. ... Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus—but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity."<ref>{{cite web|title=Cabbages and Kings|url=https://librivox.org/cabbages-and-kings-by-o-henry/|website=LibriVox|access-date=20 December 2017}}</ref>


=="Banana republic"==
=="Banana republic"==
In one of the chapters, "The Admiral", inspired by the author's experiences in Honduras, where he had lived for six months,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Malcolm D. MacLean |date=Summer 1968 |title=O. Henry in Honduras |journal=American Literary Realism, 1870–1910 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=36–46 |jstor=27747601 }}</ref> he refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.<ref name=verge>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-becoming-a-banana-republic/267048/</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=O. Henry|author-link=O. Henry|title=Cabbages and Kings|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Company]]|location=New York City|year=1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6jpMsL2T0CoC|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cabbagesandking04henrgoog <!-- quote="banana republic" Anchuria. --> 132, 296]}}</ref> According to a literary analyst writing for ''[[The Economist]]'', "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the United States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors."<ref>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-we-got-term-banana-republic-180961813/#geHDsKSeDYOltxOK.99</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/11/economist-explains-16 Where did banana republics get their name?], ''The Economist''</ref> The expression "[[banana republic]]" has been used widely since that time, particularly in political commentaries.<ref name=verge/> <ref>{{cite news |url=https://theglobal.blog/2021/03/24/third-world-analogies-and-first-world-solutions/ |title=Third World Analogies and First World Solutions |work=The Global |last1=Quintana |first1=Francisco-José |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
In one of the chapters, "The Admiral", inspired by the author's experiences in Honduras, where he had lived for six months,<ref>{{cite journal |last=MacLean |first=Malcolm D. |date=Summer 1968 |title=O. Henry in Honduras |journal=American Literary Realism, 1870–1910 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=36–46 |jstor=27747601}}</ref> he refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.<ref name="verge">{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=David A. |date=10 January 2013 |title=Is the U.S. On the Verge of Becoming a Banana Republic? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-becoming-a-banana-republic/267048 |access-date=20 December 2023 |website=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Henry |first=O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6jpMsL2T0CoC |title=Cabbages and Kings |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Company]] |year=1904 |location=New York City |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cabbagesandking04henrgoog <!-- quote="banana republic" Anchuria. --> 132, 296] |author-link=O. Henry}}</ref> According to a literary analyst writing for ''[[The Economist]]'', "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the United States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Eschner |first=Kat |date=18 January 2017 |title=Where We Got the Term "Banana Republic" |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-we-got-term-banana-republic-180961813/ |magazine=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=W. |first=T. |date=21 November 2013 |title=Where did banana republics get their name? |work=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/11/21/where-did-banana-republics-get-their-name |access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref> The expression "[[banana republic]]" has been used widely since that time, particularly in political commentaries.<ref name=verge/><ref>{{cite news |last=Quintana |first=Francisco-José |date=24 March 2021 |title=Third World Analogies and First World Solutions |work=The Global |url=https://theglobal.blog/2021/03/24/third-world-analogies-and-first-world-solutions/ |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>


== Adaptations ==
== Adaptations ==
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* ''Prezidenty i banany'' (''Президенты и бананы – Presidents and Bananas'') – operetta by Moscow Operetta Theater of 1939.
* ''Prezidenty i banany'' (''Президенты и бананы – Presidents and Bananas'') – operetta by Moscow Operetta Theater of 1939.
* ''Kogda more smeyotsya'' (''Когда море смеётся – When the Sea Laughs'') — telefilm of 1971, neat adaptation of the book.
* ''Kogda more smeyotsya'' (''Когда море смеётся – When the Sea Laughs'') — telefilm of 1971, neat adaptation of the book.
* {{ill|Cabbages and Kings (movie)|ru|Короли и капуста (фильм)}} — grotesque movie of 1978.
* {{ill|Cabbages and Kings (1978 film)|ru|Короли и капуста (фильм)}} — grotesque movie of 1978.
* {{ill|Cabbages and Kings (animated film)|ru|Короли и капуста (мультфильм)}} — stop-motion animated film of 1996.
* {{ill|Cabbages and Kings (1996 film)|ru|Короли и капуста (мультфильм)}} — stop-motion animated film of 1996.


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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Title page of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition)

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: 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.

Chapters

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The Proem: By the Carpenter[2]
  1. "Fox-in-the-Morning"
  2. The Lotus and the Bottle
  3. Smith
  4. Caught
  5. Cupid's Exile Number Two
  6. T
  7. The Admiral
  8. The Flag Paramount
  9. The Shamrock and the Palm
  10. The Remnants of the Code
  11. Shoes
  12. Ships
  13. Masters of Arts
  14. Dicky
  15. Rouge et Noir
  16. Two Recalls
  17. The Vitagraphoscope

Cabbages and Kings can be classified as a fix-up novel. In the last chapter of the book, "The Vitagraphoscope", O. Henry suggests that it is a "vaudeville" that is "intrinsically episodic and discontinuous". Some characters do their turn—the vaudeville term for an act—and disappear, and others reappear if only briefly.

New York Times Book Review, December 17 1904

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"The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. ... Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus—but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity."[3]

"Banana republic"

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In one of the chapters, "The Admiral", inspired by the author's experiences in Honduras, where he had lived for six months,[4] he refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.[5][6] According to a literary analyst writing for The Economist, "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the United States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors."[7][8] The expression "banana republic" has been used widely since that time, particularly in political commentaries.[5][9]

Adaptations

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It has been adapted four times in the USSR and Russia:

  • Prezidenty i banany (Президенты и бананы – Presidents and Bananas) – operetta by Moscow Operetta Theater of 1939.
  • Kogda more smeyotsya (Когда море смеётся – When the Sea Laughs) — telefilm of 1971, neat adaptation of the book.
  • Cabbages and Kings (1978 film) [ru] — grotesque movie of 1978.
  • Cabbages and Kings (1996 film) [ru] — stop-motion animated film of 1996.

References

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  1. ^ Henry, O. (1904). Cabbages and Kings. ISBN 9781438790787.
  2. ^ "Complete book - Of cabbages and kings". gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Cabbages and Kings". LibriVox. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. ^ MacLean, Malcolm D. (Summer 1968). "O. Henry in Honduras". American Literary Realism, 1870–1910. 1 (3): 36–46. JSTOR 27747601.
  5. ^ a b Graham, David A. (10 January 2013). "Is the U.S. On the Verge of Becoming a Banana Republic?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  6. ^ Henry, O. (1904). Cabbages and Kings. New York City: Doubleday, Page & Company. pp. 132, 296.
  7. ^ Eschner, Kat (18 January 2017). "Where We Got the Term "Banana Republic"". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  8. ^ W., T. (21 November 2013). "Where did banana republics get their name?". The Economist. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  9. ^ Quintana, Francisco-José (24 March 2021). "Third World Analogies and First World Solutions". The Global. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
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