Great Cat Tales

Jacob A. Riis, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Perrault, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Paul Gallico, Anonymous, Algernon Blackwood, C. H. Ross, Saki, Traditional, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Harry Graham, Dorothy M. Stewart, Lord Zouche, Théophile Gautier, La Fontaine, Samuel Lover, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Christina Rossetti, Mark Twain, Anatole France, Michael Joseph, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dudley Warner, Bossewell, Perez, Bernard, Emily Dickinson, N. Margaret Campbell, Ambrose Bierce, James Anthony Froude, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edmund Lear, John S Lopez, Marguerite Steen, Don Marquis, Arnold Bennett, Q. Patrick, F. R. Buckley, Patricia Highsmith, Anne Marks, William Butler Yeats, Émile Zola, Lewis Carroll, Bret Harte, Judy Martin, Lady Morgan, Samuel Courtland , Colette, Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, G. H. Powell, Edgar Allan Poe, Allan Cunningham, Anna Seward, Dr. Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Smart, Pierre Loti, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Charles N. De Manoncourt, Edwina Stanton Babcock, Oswald Barron, W. L. Alden, W. L. Alden, Louisa Victoria Barry , Douglas Hyde, John Keats, Wilde Lady, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Aesop, Honoré de Balzac, John Coleman Adams, Charles G. D. Roberts, Alexandre Dumas

Domesticated since the time of the Pharaohs, but never completely tamed, cats still retain their sense of mystery and fascinate those privileged enough to share their lives. The inimitable free spirit of the eat is celebrated in this 'purr-fectly' charming selection of cat stories, anecdotes, essays and poems. In Great Cat Tales you will find a wealth of tributes from both famous authors of the past and well-loved contemporary writers. The wide- ranging contents embrace Leigh Hunt's "The Cat by the Fire" and Rudyard Kipling's myth-like "The Cat That Walked by Himself;" Charles Dudley Warner's famous and touching portrait "Calvin the Cat;" eerie murderous instincts in Patricia Highsmith's "Ming's Biggest Prey;" uproarious comedy in "The Story of Webster" by P.G. Wodehouse; and poems by, among others, Emily Dickinson, John Keats and W.B. Yeats. Essential reading for cat-lovers...

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