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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Everyman
ISBN-13
9781841596105
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109253070
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cat Stories
Author
Diana Secker Tesdell
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
125mm
Item Weight
410g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Editor
Diana Secker Tesdell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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