Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. 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. It was inspired by the characters and situations that O. Henry encountered in Honduras in the late 1890s.
Adaptations (2)
Cabbages and Kings has been adapted into 2 films, from 1978 to 1996. The most recent is Короли и капуста (1996).
Короли и капуста1978 · film · 145 min · dir. Nikolai Rasheyev · IMDb ↗IMDb6.0Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...
Короли и капуста1996 · film · 52 min · dir. Mariya Muat · IMDb ↗IMDb4.7Stop motion movie made in Russia.
