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Everyman's Library
30 September 2011
CAT STORIES brings together two centuries of literary homage to the fascinating feline by great writers of every stripe - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walter de la Mare, to Damon Runyon and Doris Lessing. A purr-fect gift for all cat lovers

Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their humans, while writers as varied as Patricia Highsmith and Fritz Leiber imagine the intriguingly alien feline point of view. Cats flaunt their undeniable superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of 'Puss-in-Boots' and Stephen Vincent Benet's uncanny 'The King of the Cats', while humour abounds in tales by comic masters P. G. Wodehouse and Saki. The essential unknowableness of cats inspires the most exotic flights of fancy- Calvino's secret city of cats in 'The Garden of Stubborn Cats', the disappearing animal in Ursula K. LeGuin's brain-teasing 'Schr dinger's Cat', the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's 'Cat 'n' Mouse'. In these and other stories, this delightful anthology offers cat lovers a many-faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.
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Imprint:   Everyman's Library
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Height: 188mm,  Width: 123mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   410g
ISBN:   9781841596105
ISBN 10:   1841596108
Series:   Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Editor Biography- Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman Christmas Stories, Dog Stories, Love Stories and Stories of the Sea

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