Cabbages and Kings Illustrated

Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel comprised of interlinked short stories, composed by O. Henry and set in an imaginary Central American nation called the Republic of Anchuria. It takes its title from the sonnet "The Walrus and the Carpenter", included in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains celebrated components in the sonnet: shoes and ships and fixing wax, cabbages and rulers. It was motivated by the characters and circumstances that O. Henry experienced in Honduras in the late 1890s.