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The work of the great American writer, master of the short story O. Henry (1862-1910) has been attracting readers for more than a hundred years with its good humour, optimism, and youthful enthusiasm. "Kings and Cabbage is O. Henry's only novel. The work consists of short stories united by a common plot and characters. Although O. Henry himself defined the genre of his work as a novel, he noted that he wrote a "tragic vaudeville", a "comedy made of colourful patches". The novel is set in the small "banana" republic of Anchuria. Anchuria is a generalised image of several Latin American countries where the writer was forced to hide from justice.

The book also includes collections of short stories "Four Million" and "The Prepared Candle", the life vicissitudes of the characters of which - small clerks, shop assistants, vagrants, unknown artists, poets, small adventurers - cannot leave the reader indifferent.