Cabbages and Kings

Name: Cabbages and Kings
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: O. Henry
ISBN: 9781911065616

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: James Harrington

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 07/11/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

"Cabbages and Kings" by O. Henry is a collection of short stories set in the fictional country of Anchuria, reflecting on human nature, love, and life's unpredictability. Through vivid characters and witty narratives, it explores themes of ambition, romance, and societal contrasts with O. Henry's signature twist endings.

About O. Henry

O. Henry, the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), was a prolific American short story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of his stories. During his lifetime, O. Henry published over six hundred stories and ten collections, including Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, The Trimmed Lamp, Whirligigs, and The Heart of the West.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopherseelie on May 03, 2011

A fairly well-knit collection of short stories, each displaying O. Henry's knack for concealing while he puts on a show. The book has a comic portrayal of the tropics, both its volatile political climate and its meteorological one. The book shows its age by opining race-based comments about the inha......more

Goodreads review by Laura on July 04, 2019

This is definitely not O. Henry at his best. His strength is with the individual short story - this book is a collection of short stories which is supposed to have a common thread. I began to enjoy the stories more when I stopped trying to fit them all together and read them simply as short stories,......more