Cabbages and Kings (novel)

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.

Its plot contains famous elements in the poem: shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings.

"[3] In one of the chapters, "The Admiral", inspired by the author's experiences in Honduras, where he had lived for six months,[4] he refers to Anchuria as a "small maritime banana republic"; naturally, the fruit was the entire basis of its economy.

[5][6] According to a literary analyst writing for The Economist, "his phrase neatly conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country.

But its real meaning is sharper: it refers to the fruit companies from the United States that came to exert extraordinary influence over the politics of Honduras and its neighbors.