Cabbages and Kings

MP3 Audio CD. O. Henry's Cabbages and Kings was his first volume and is regarded to be his only fictional book. The storyline entails a list of short narratives, which were encouraged by his visit in Honduras in the 19th century.

"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." -- The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 1904)

Cabbages and Kings comprises the following: The Proem: By the Carpenter; "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; and The Vitagraphoscope.

William Sydney Porter popular by his pseudonym O. Henry, was a United States author primarily of children?s stories. His tales are well known for their bittersweet finales.

O. Henry's pieces is all-inclusive, and his rolls can be seen meandering around the farmlands of Texas, discovering the craft of the flimflammer, or fact-finding the strains of society and prestige in sophisticated New York. O. Henry had an artsy style for setting apart nitty-gritties of social class and depicting it with an farfetched parcity and subtlety of etymology. Many of his major and minor crafts is contained in Cabbages and Kings, several narratives which uncovers a bit of discrete feature of life in a pallidly sluggish Central America and giving more details of a more interesting storyline.