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Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel written by O. Henry, 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.

The novel contains various short stories, all of which occur in Anchuria, and are connected to each other.

Chapters:

THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER

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 Chapters:
+::THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER
+{{ordered list|list_style_type=upper-roman
-    THE PROEM: BY THE CARPENTER
-    I. "FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"
+|"FOX-IN-THE-MORNING"
-    II. THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE
+|THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE
-    III. SMITH
+|SMITH
-    IV. CAUGHT
+|IV. CAUGHT
-    V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO
+|CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER TWO
-    VI. THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT
+|THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT
-    VII. MONEY MAZE
+|MONEY MAZE
-    VIII. THE ADMIRAL
+|THE ADMIRAL
-    IX. THE FLAG PARAMOUNT
+|THE FLAG PARAMOUNT
-    X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM
+|THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM
-    XI. THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE
+|THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE
-    XII. SHOES
+|SHOES
-    XIII. SHIPS
+|SHIPS
-    XIV. MASTERS OF ARTS
+|MASTERS OF ARTS
-    XV. DICKY
+|DICKY
-    XVI. ROUGE ET NOIR
+|ROUGE ET NOIR
-    XVII. TWO RECALLS
+|TWO RECALLS
-    XVIII. THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE
+|THE VITAGRAPHOSCOPE
+}}
 ==External links==

v t e O. Henry
Short stories	"The Duplicity of Hargraves" (1902) "A Retrieved Reformation" (1903) "The Cop and the Anthem" (1904) "Makes the Whole World Kin" (1904) "The Last Leaf" (1905) "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) "The Skylight Room" (1906) "After Twenty Years" (1906) "Conscience in Art" (1907) "The Caballero's Way" (1907) "A Lickpenny Lover" (1908) "One Thousand Dollars" (1908) "The Third Ingredient" (1908) "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910)
Novels	Cabbages and Kings (1904)
Story collections	The Four Million (1906) Roads of Destiny (1909) Whirligigs (1910) Waifs and Strays (1917)
Related	O. Henry Award William Sidney Porter House O. Henry House and Museum O. Henry Hall A Night in New Arabia (1917 film) O. Henry's Full House (1952 film) Strictly Business (1962 film) The Trust That Went Bust (1983 miniseries) Katha Sagar (1986 miniseries)