Great Cat Tales
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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 everywhere, Great Cat Tales is a deft balance of old favorites and new and delightful surprises. --front flap
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Harry Graham
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James Anthony Froude
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Douglas Hyde
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Bret Harte
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E. A. Wallis Budge
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Samuel Lover
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Colette
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P. G. Wodehouse
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Rosamund Marriott Watson
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Herbert Ravenel Sass
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Allan Cunningham
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John Keats
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Charles Dudley Warner
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Charles G. D. Roberts
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Marguerite Steen
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Alexandre Dumas
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Mark Twain
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Emily Dickinson
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Perez, Bernard
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W. L. Alden
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Oscar Wilde
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Dorothy M. Stewart
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Ambrose Bierce
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William Butler Yeats
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Jerome Klapka Jérôme
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Jacob A. Riis
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Lewis Carroll
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Q. Patrick
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F. R. Buckley
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Lady Morgan
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Edwina Stanton Babcock
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Oswald Barron
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Rudyard Kipling
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Anna Seward
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Aesop
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Charles Perrault
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Judy Martin
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Christopher Smart
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Traditional
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Patricia Highsmith
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Honoré de Balzac
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Arnold Bennett
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John Coleman Adams
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Émile Zola
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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Charles N. De Manoncourt
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Anne Marks
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