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I am a cat / Sōseki Natsume ; translated by Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson.
Van Pelt Library PL812.A8 W313 2002b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916, author.
- 夏目, 漱石 1867-1916, author.
- Series:
- Tuttle classics
- Standardized Title:
- Wagahai wa neko de aru. English
- 吾輩ハ猫デアル. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81096408
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Middle class.
- Japan.
- Cats--Fiction.
- Cats.
- Middle class--Japan--Fiction.
- Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912--Fiction.
- Humorous stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- x, 470 pages ; 21 cm.
- Distribution:
- North Clarendon, Vt. : Tuttle Publishing, [2002]
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Tuttle Pub., [2002]
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. I Am a Cat first appeared in ten installments in the literary magazine Hototogisu (Cuckoo), between 1905 and 1906.
- "I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature--from the dramas of businessmen and schoolteachers to the foibles of priests and potentates. From this unique perspective, author Sōseki Natsume offers a biting commentary--shaped by his training in Chinese philosophy--on the social upheaval of the Meija era"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- "Three volumes in one"--Cover.
- "[English edition] originally published in three volumes by Tuttle Publishing in 1972 (Vol. I), 1979 (Vol. II), and 1986 (Vol. III)"--Title page verso.
- Translation of: 吾輩は猫である.
- ISBN:
- 080483265X
- 9780804832656
- OCLC:
- 180297146
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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