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"As the result of a run-in with the law, struggling American writer William Sydney Porter chose to make a dash for the border in 1896. During the several months he spent in Honduras, Porter had enough time on his hands to begin exploring his talent for writing, which up until then had been merely a hobby. The result was the group of stories that are collected in Cabbages and Kings. Though most of these pieces were written before Porter assumed the pseudonym O ..."@en
"Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."@en
"A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term ""banana republic"""@en
"O. Henry penned his only novel based on true-life experiences in tropical Honduras. Taking place in Anchuria, a mythical banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution always a possibility, O. Henry creates an entire world of adventure by using many perspectives, all touched with his trademark wit and humor."@en
"Cabbages and Kings is still a rather unusual book, even after the experimentation with narrative form that has characterized much of twentieth century literature. With Roads of Destiny it was clear that O. Henry occasionally wanted to do new things with the short story form, and not just continue to produce the slightly sentimental shorts which had brought him popularity. He experimented with the form of the short story while continuing to write about the same sorts of subjects in the same accessible style. In Cabbages and Kings it is the idea of a collection of short stories that Henry plays with, writing what is in effect a novel consisting of short stories. Some parts of the book amount to chapters put in to glue the stories together, while other stories have little relevance to the main plot. This main plot is concerned with revolutionary politics in the fictional South American state of Anchuria, particularly the involvement with them of American citizens resident in the country. The President of Anchuria, Miraflores, has fled the capital with $100,000 from the treasury; he must be captured before he reaches the coast. In the coastal town of Coralio, he and his mistress are discovered, Miraflores kills himself, but the money disappears. The only two people who could know anything about it, the American Goodwin who found him, and Miraflores' mistress, now married to Goodwin, are too important to be suspected, and Goodwin is well known for his honesty. As the new president, Losada, begins to show signs that his rule will become oppressive even by the standards of South America at the time, opposition grows; and this forms the background to Cabbages and Kings. However, the best stories as short stories are those which have little relationship with this background, such as the sequence starting with Shoes centering on the young US consul John de Graffenried Atwood. This indicates that in the end Cabbages and Kings fails as an experiment; Henry's craft is so wedded to the short story form of which he was one of the greatest masters that the extended structure does not come at all naturally. The single background is a bit of a straight jacket, and it tends to fragment whenever Henry has an idea which interests him."@en

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"Roman américain"
"Genres littéraires"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Opowiadanie amerykańskie"
"Mystery and detective fiction"
"Electronic books"@en
"Collections"
"Collections"@en
"Humorous fiction"@en
"Humorous fiction"
"Short stories"
"Large type books"@en
"Humorous stories"@en

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"Cabbages and kings ; The four million ; The trimmed lamp"@en
"白菜與帝王"
"Cabbages and kings - the complete works of o. henry - vol"@en
"Rewolucja i miłość : (Cabbages and kings)"
"Cabbages and kings : By O. Henry"
"Cabbages and kings / by O. Henry"
"Cabbages and kings"@en
"Cabbages and kings"
"Cabbages and kings : [and] The four million [and] The trimmed lamp"@en
"Souliers, bateaux et présidents"
"Purpurkjolen. Aut. Overs. for Norge og Danmark"@da
"Purpurkjolen : Autor. Overs. for Norge og Danmark"@da
"Cabbages and kings, by O. Henry"
"Cabbages and kings, by O. Henry"@en
"Cabbages and Kings The four million ; The trimmed lamp"
"Purpurkjolen"@da
"Rewolucja i miłość = (Cabbages and Kings)"@pl
"Purpurkjolen"
"Cabbages and kings : O. Henry"
"Cabbages and Kings"
"Cabbages and kings. : by O. Henry pseud"@en
"Cabbages and Kings"@en
"Bai cai yu di wang"
"Purpurkjolen : Indbundet sammen med: Haandbog for Friere"@da
"Cabagges and kings"
"Cabbages and kings / by O. Henry.[pseud.]"@en
"Cabbages and Kings. The Four Million. The Trimmed Lamp, etc"@en
"Kohlköpfe und Caballeros"

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