Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious country.
A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town called the Republic of Anchuria 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. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the authors six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s.
