Cat Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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Cat Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripeâ€”from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.

The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvinoâ€™s secret city of cats in â€œThe Garden of Stubborn Cats,â€ the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guinâ€™s mind-twisting â€œSchrÃ¶dingerâ€™s Cat,â€ the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauserâ€™s â€œCat â€™nâ€™ Mouse.â€ Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carterâ€™s bawdy retelling of â€œPuss-in-Bootsâ€ and in Stephen Vincent BenÃ©tâ€™s â€œThe King of the Cats,â€ in which two impossibly suave foreigners are revealed as even more exotic than they pretend to be. In â€œThe Islandsâ€ by Alice Adams and â€œI See You, Biancaâ€ by Maeve Brennan we see how much cats can mean to their humans. And the inimitable Saki lets us hear what cats really think of us in â€œTobermory,â€ his tale of a tactless talking animal.

In these and other stories, this delightful book offers cat lovers a many- faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307700896
ISBN	0307700895
Label	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2011-10-18
Publisher	Everyman's Library
ReleaseDate	2011-10-18
Studio	Everyman's Library

Cat Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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