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The Sophisticated cat : a gathering of stories, poems, and miscellaneous writings about cats / chosen by Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern.

LIBRA Special PN6071.C3 S65 1992
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Format:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Literary collections.
  • Literature.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xvii, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, [1992]
Contents:
  • Who was to blame? / Anton Chekhov
  • The story of Webster / P. G. Wodehouse
  • The cat's paradise / Émile Zola
  • The afflictions of an English cat / Honoré de Balzac
  • Tobermory / Saki
  • The black cat / Edgar Allen Poe
  • Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway
  • Dick Baker's cat / Mark Twain
  • Lillian / Damon Runyon
  • From "La Chatte: Saha" / Colette
  • The white and black dynasties / Théophile Gautier
  • Mrs. Bond's cat / James Herriot
  • Death of a favorite / J. F. Powers
  • The best bed / Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • From "I am a cat" / Soseki Natsume
  • The white cat / Joyce Carol Oates
  • The islands / Alice Adams
  • Puss in boots / Angela Carter
  • Schrödinger's cat / Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Amateur voodoo / Francine Prose
  • The tale of the cats / Italo Calvino
  • Cat and mouse in partnership / Brothers Grimm
  • Four fables / Aesop
  • The cat walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling
  • The Cheshire-cat / Lewis Carroll
  • Cat and king ; Cat and youth ; John Mortonson's funeral ; A cargo cat / Ambrose Bierce
  • A friendly rat / W. H. Hudson
  • The little red kitten / Lafcadio Hearn.
  • Dogs and cats ; The lives of two cats / Pierre Loti
  • On cats / Guy de Maupassant
  • The cat of Egypt / Herodotus
  • My cat / Montaigne
  • Hodge / James Boswell
  • An appreciation / Chateaubriand
  • Hinse of Hinsefeld / Sir Walter Scott
  • A letter of condolence / Thomas Grey
  • In memoriam / Robert Southey
  • The cats of Balthus / Rainer Maria Rilke
  • From "The Reivers: Cats" / William Faulkner
  • A humble petition / Benjamin Franklin
  • The roaming cat / Adlai Stevenson
  • Dogs vis-á vis cats / Roy Blount, Jr.
Notes:
"A William Abrahams book."
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
ISBN:
0525935223 :
OCLC:
25706620

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