Cabbages and Kings
7 hrs. 57 min.
Language
Russian
Author
O. Henry
Author
O. Henry
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
Narrator
Alexander Bordukov
Description
“Cabbages and Kings” is a satirical novella by the American writer O. Henry, published in 1904 and based on the reworked collection of short stories of the same name. It was translated into Russian by Korney Chukovsky.
The action takes place in a fictional small Latin American country called “Anchuria,” which the writer himself describes as a “banana republic” (the term was coined by O. Henry himself): the country’s main source of income is the export of tropical fruits to the United States. The country’s population lives in idleness and widespread poverty, the government is universally corrupt or plays at revolution, an American steamship company pulls the strings, and several enterprising American fortune-seekers are swept into a whirlpool of the most unexpected events.
The action takes place in a fictional small Latin American country called “Anchuria,” which the writer himself describes as a “banana republic” (the term was coined by O. Henry himself): the country’s main source of income is the export of tropical fruits to the United States. The country’s population lives in idleness and widespread poverty, the government is universally corrupt or plays at revolution, an American steamship company pulls the strings, and several enterprising American fortune-seekers are swept into a whirlpool of the most unexpected events.
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