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The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told

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2001288 pagesThe Lyons Press

Synopsis

This collection gathers a wide range of short stories centered on our feline companions, from some of literature's most famous authors. The tales vary from charming fables and character studies to unsettling works of horror. Whether they are heroes, villains, or simply mysterious observers, the cats in these stories reveal the many ways we see them.

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Authors

Charles Elliott is an editor and writer who focuses on the natural world and animal behavior. He is best known for compiling The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told, a collection of classic literature about feline companions. His other books often cover the history and practical side of gardening.

Runyon was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names...

Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter...

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular mora...

Lewis Carroll is well known throughout the world as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Behind the famous pseudonym was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably diverse talents. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/life.html

Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, un...

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Harry Allen Smith was an American humorist and journalist who wrote dozens of books about the funny side of everyday life. He is best known for editing The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told and for his sharp

An English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist.

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Angela Carter was a master of dark fairy tales and gothic fiction. Her collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a must-read for anyone who loves a story with a sharp edge.

Humorist, novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. Creator of the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse.

Charles Dudley Warner, author of Historias de gatos, offers readers charming stories. He's known for his engaging narratives that explore the lives of our feline friends.

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, also known as H. H. Munro, a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.

Jean Stafford was a gifted storyteller, celebrated for her sharp wit and keen observations. Her collection, Great Short Stories of the World, showcases her mastery of the short fiction form.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

Eleanor Clark is the author of The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told. She specializes in animal-themed literature and collections that highlight the personalities of cats. Her writing offers a direct look at the relationship between people and their pets.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medic...

William Wymark Jacobs Born in Wapping, Middlesex, England, UK

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently...

Soseki Natsurne is a Japanese writer who helped define modern fiction with his sharp social commentary and short stories. His work is featured in The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told, a collection that showcases

William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written. His work is considered among the most important in all of literature. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that Spanish is often called la lengua de Cervantes (The language of Cervantes). He has been dubbed el Príncipe de los Ingenios...

John Adams is the author of The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told. He writes about the bond between humans and animals, focusing on feline-centered narratives and anthologies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a highly individual writer of novels, short stories and poems. She contributed short stories to the New Yorker for more than forty years, translated Proust's Contre Saint-Beuve into English, wrote a biography of the novelist T.H.White and a guide to Somerset. ([Source][1].) Here's the Townsend Warner's bibliography for her: http://www.townsendwarner.com/bibliography.php I wonder if Open Library can match it! [1]: http://www.townsendwarner.com/biography.php

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a prominent 19th-century American author of novels and short stories (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eleanor_Wilkins_Freeman>Wikipedia</a>).

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodeh...

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Characters

The Cheshire CatProtagonist
Puss-in-BootsProtagonist
TobermoryProtagonist
Tom QuartzProtagonist
MehitabelProtagonist

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