Great Cat Tales

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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Essential reading for cat-lovers everywhere, Great Cat Tales is a deft balance of old favorites and new and delightful surprises.<br/>--front flap<br/><br/>Slippers. The White House Cat — Jacob A. Riis .<br/>The Story of Webster — P. G. Wodehouse „<br/>Puss in Boots — Charles Perrault<br/>Jephson's Cat Stories — Jerome K. Jerome<br/>The Silent Miaow — Paul Gallico<br/>The Cameronian Cat —Anon<br/>The Attic — Algernon Blackwood .<br/>A Parable for Philanthropists — Anon<br/>The White Cat — C. H. Ross .<br/>Tobermory — Saki .<br/>Dick Whittington's Cat — Traditional<br/>The Cat of the Cherokees — Herbert Ravenel Sass<br/>The Cat — Harry Graham<br/>In Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome — Dorothy Margaret Stewart .<br/>Aga — Lord Zouche .<br/>The Black and White Dynasties — Théophile Gautier .<br/>The Cat and the Rat — La Fontaine .<br/>Tom Connor's Cat — Samuel Lover<br/>What The Cat Thinks of the Dog Anon<br/>The Cat — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman .<br/>On the Death of a Cat — Christina Rossetti .<br/>Dick Baker's Cat — Mark Twain .<br/>Hannibal — Anatole France<br/>About My Cats — Michael Joseph<br/>The Sending of Dana Da — Rudyard Ktphng<br/>Dogs and Cats — Alexandre Dumas .<br/>Three Little Kittens — Anon<br/>Calvin, The Cat — Charles Dudley Warner<br/>Why is there Enmity Between the Cat and the Dog? —<br/>Traditional...<br/>The Musion — Bossewell .<br/>Feline Instinct — Bernard Perez<br/>Hey Diddle Diddle! — Anon .<br/>The Cat That Walked by Himself— Rudyard Kipling .<br/>The Cat and the Robin — Emily Dickinson<br/>The Undoing of Morning Glory Adolphus — N. Margaret Campbell<br/>The Boy Who Drew Cats — Ambrose Bierce<br/>The Cat Painter — Anon<br/>The Cat's Pilgrimage — James Anthony Froude .<br/>Verses on a Cat — Percy Bysshe Shelley<br/>Of some amiable Cats, and Cats that<br/>have been good Mothers — C. H. Ross<br/>The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — Edmund Lear<br/>The Theatre Cat —John S. Lopez .<br/>How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe — Charles G. D. Roberts<br/>Little White King — Marguerite Steen ................................................<br/>The Tom Cat — Don Marquis .<br/>The Cat and Cupid — Arnold Bennett .<br/>Why The Cat Sleeps Indoors and The Dog Outside —<br/>Traditional<br/>The Fat Cat — Q. Patrick<br/>The Cat and the Fox — La Fontaine<br/>Some Clever Cats — C. H. Ross .<br/>The Childhood of Miss Churt — F. R. Buckley<br/>Ming's Biggest Prey — Patricia Highsmith .<br/>The Cat and Superstition — Anne Marks .<br/>The Cat and the Moon — W. B. Yeats .<br/>The Cat's Paradise — Emile Zola<br/>The Cheshire Cat — Lewis Carroll .<br/>Miss Edith's Modest Request — Bret Harte .<br/>Below the Mill Dam — Rudyard Kipling<br/>The Vatican Cat — Judy Martin<br/>Ginger — Lady Morgan .<br/>Pangur Ban — Samuel Courtland<br/>Three Cats — Colette —<br/>Mike — Sir Ernest A. Wallace Budge<br/>The Blue Dryad — G. H. Powell .<br/>The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe ..<br/>The Fox and the Cat — Allan Cunningham<br/>A Cat Correspondence — Anna Seward Dr Darwin .<br/>Tom Quartz: Miner's Cat — Mark Twain .<br/>From The Sphinx — Oscar Wilde<br/>My Cat Jeoffrey — Christopher Smart .<br/>Object of Love Mary E. Wilkins Freeman .<br/>Cats and Dogs — Jerome K. Jerome .<br/>A Dying Cat — Pierre Loti .<br/>Sir Robert Grant - cat — Sir Thomas Gordon .<br/>Mice Before Milk — Geoffrey Chaucer<br/>Feline Favourites — Théophile Gautier<br/>To My Cat — Rosamund Marriott Watson .<br/>Turkish Customs — Charles de Manoncourt .<br/>From the Diary Of a Cat — Edwina