{"product_id":"cabbages-and-kings-by-o-henry-fiction-literary-classics-short-stories-9781463897604","title":"Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry, Fiction, Literary, Classics, Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book was written while by a man on the lam, literally, in Honduras.\u003c\/strong\u003e O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was awaiting trial over bank embezzlement changes, and his father in law posted bail to keep him out of jail -- but the day before Porter was due to stand trial he fled, first to New Orleans and later to Honduras. While holed up in a Trujillo, Honduras, hotel for several months, he wrote Cabbages and Kings. This is the book where Henry coined the term \"banana republic\" to describe the country; the term went on to be used to describe almost any small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America. And then his wife's long-term illness took a turn for the worse: she was dying of tuberculosis. Porter packed his bags and went back to face trial in Houston. This volume is the only work of O. Henry's which approaches being a novel. The stories are related and should be read in the sequence in which they occur in the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aegypan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781463897604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"O. Henry, William Sydney Porter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935582064821,"sku":"9781463897604","price":28.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_185600fc-607e-408e-8782-0fce6a3ab16c.jpg?v=1688489924","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cabbages-and-kings-by-o-henry-fiction-literary-classics-short-stories-9781463897604","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}