Title: Cabbages and Kings
First published: 1904
Description: They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that one hundred thousand dollars, government funds, which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered. Cabbages and Kings was O. Henry's first collection of short stories, published in 1904.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Classic Literature, New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Short stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), New york (n.y.), fiction, American Short stories, English Ballads, Texts, Scots Ballads, English Folk songs, Scots Folk songs, English Narrative poetry, Tobacco
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century