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Roger Caras has brought together a collection of tales by such master storytellers as Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe. Mark Twain, Saki. Stephen Vincent Benet. Fritz Leiber. PG. Wodehouse, Paul Gallico and Cordwainer Smith. who join in their respect and admiration for the mysterious and beautiful feline.
"Domestic cats emerged in Egypt between 1700 and 1600 BC, not at all coincidentally at the same time the Egvptians invented the silo and began to store grain. For virtually their entire history our tabbies and their kin have had an arcane relationship with us. We have worshipped them, feared them, made them demigods and the familiars of devils and witches, They have foretold happiness and despair and been the agent of both. We have painted them, sculpted them, etched them, incorporated them into our architecture. used them as trademarks, eye-catchers. mousers, and most important. as companions.
"Now. in our time. as the industrial revolution has just about completed its work Of urbanizing and suburbanizing formerly rural man, the cat, that ultimate companion animal, is coming into its own to a greater degree and at a ...
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Roger Caras' treasury of great cat stories.
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The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling --
The cat by the fire / Leigh Hunt --
The white cat / W.W. Jacobs --
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --
Cats / Philip Gilbert Hamerton --
The cat / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
Calvin, the cat / Charles Dudley Warner --
Ye marvelous legend of Tom Connor's cat / Samuel Lover --
Dick Baker's cat / Mark Twain --
The conscientious cat / Agnes A. Sandham --
He wrote to the rats / Julian Ralph --
The philanthropist and the happy cat ; Tobermory / Saki --
Midshipman, the cat / John Coleman Adams --
A black affair / W.W. Jacobs --
"When in doubt--wash!" ; Jennie's lessons to Peter on how to behave like a cat / Paul Gallico --
The witch's cat / Manly Wade Wellman --
A feline felony / Lael J. Littke --
The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers --
Novice / James H. Schmitz --
The fat cat / Q. Patrick --
My father, the cat / Henry Slesar --
The sin of Madame Phloi / Lilian Jackson Braun --
The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét --
The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith --
Podolo / L.P. Hartley --
Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber --
Spooner / Eleanor Farjeon --
The story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse --
Out of place / Pamela Sargent --
Cat nipped / Jack Schaefer --
The cat who lived in a drainpipe / Joan Aiken --
Some are born cats / Terry and Carol Carr --
Autumn : the garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino.
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