" Next to keeping cats around the house, people apparently enjoy writing about them.
THE GREATEST CAT STORIES EVER TOLD will introduce you to a wide range of these writers and a wide range of felines:
Rhubarb, the bad-tempered yellow tom who inherits a big-league baseball team;
Lily, the seductive tortoiseshell who can wrap her own owner around her little paw;
George Elliot, the silver tabby who may be a bit of a hypochondriac;
Calvin, the fastidious Maltese who was so well loved and well lamented;
and Ming, the possessive Siamese who develops a taste for blood;
along with many other cats-every one of them a unique individual.
Each story in this volume has been selected with the most finicky cat lover in mind, selected not only for their intrinsic literary value but also for their ability to convey that special something-that mysterious allure of the cat. "

Contents includes:

" INTRODUCTION Charles Elliott

LILLIAN Damon Runyon

CAT'S PARADISE Émile Zola

TOM QUARTZ Mark Twain

MING'S BIGGEST PREY Patricia Highsmith

THE CHESHIRE CAT Lewis Carroll

THE GARDEN OF STUBBORN CATS Italo Calvino

THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF Rudyard Kipling

RHUBARB H. Allen Smith

THE CYPRIAN CAT Dorothy L. Sayers

A CAT, A MAN, AND TWO WOMEN Junichiro Tanizaki

PUSS-IN-BOOTS Angela Carter

MEHITABEL AND HER KITTENS Don Marquis

CALVIN: A STUDY OF CHARACTER Charles Dudley Warner

THE IMMORTAL CAT Karel Capek

TOBERMORY Saki

GEORGE ELLIOT: A MEDICAL STUDY Jean Stafford

THE BLACK CAT Edgar Allen Poe

THE BLACK AND WHITE DYNASTIES Théophile Gautier

PIAZZA VITTORIO Eleanor Clark

AN INCIDENT Anton Chekhov

A BLACK AFFAIR W.W. Jacobs

SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT Ursula K. Le Guin

I AM A CAT Soseki Natsume

THE CAT THAT WENT TO TRINITY Robertson Davies

THE AFFLICTIONS OF AN ENGLISH CAT Honoré de Balzac

QUIXOTE AND THE CATS Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

MIDSHIPMAN, THE CAT John Coleman Adams

TOTAL LOSS Sylvia Townsend Warner

THE CAT Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

THE STORY OF WEBSTER P.G. Wodehouse

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS "

This book is in good condition but the cover has several dirt marks.
The dust jacket is in very good condition with minor wear.
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There is a name written on the first blank page.

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