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The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats

by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Daniel Halpern (Editor)

Other authors: Alice Adams (Contributor), Æsop (Contributor), Honoré Balzac (Contributor), Charles Baudelaire (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor)88 more, Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor), Roy Blount, Jr. (Contributor), James Boswell (Contributor), Charles Calverly (Contributor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), Lewis Carroll (Contributor), Angela Carter (Contributor), Chateaubriand (Contributor), Anton Chekhov (Contributor), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Walter de la Mare (Contributor), Guy de Maupassant (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Stephen Dunn (Contributor), T.S. Eliot (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Jean de La Fontaine (Contributor), Benjamin Franklin (Contributor), Théophile Gautier (Contributor), Reginald Gibbons (Contributor), Robert Graves (Contributor), Thomas Gray (Contributor), Jakob Grimm (Contributor), Wilhelm Grimm (Contributor), Thomas Hardy (Contributor), Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Anthony Hecht (Contributor), Heinrich Heine (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), Herodotus (Contributor), James Herriot (Contributor), Edward Hirsch (Contributor), John Hollander (Contributor), W.H. Hudson (Contributor), Ted Hughes (Contributor), Randall Jarrell (Contributor), John Keats (Contributor), Weldon Kees (Contributor), Galway Kinnell (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), John L’Heureux (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Edward Lear (Contributor), Vachel Lindsay (Contributor), Pierre Loti (Contributor), Amy Lowell (Contributor), Don Marquis (Contributor), William Matthews (Contributor), Roger McGough (Contributor), Montaigne (Contributor), Marianne Moore (Contributor), Howard Moss (Contributor), Soseki Natsume (Contributor), Pablo Neruda (Contributor), Robert Phillips (Contributor), Edgar Allen Poe (Contributor), J.F. Powers (Contributor), Francine Prose (Contributor), Bin Ramke (Contributor), Rainer Maria Rilke (Contributor), Pattiann Rogers (Contributor), Christina Rosetti (Contributor), Damon Runyon (Contributor), Saki (Contributor), Sir Walter Scott (Contributor), George Seferis (Contributor), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Contributor), John Skelton (Contributor), Christopher Smart (Contributor), Robert Southey (Contributor), Wallace Stevens (Contributor), Adlai Stevenson (Contributor), Jonathan Swift (Contributor), Algernon Chas. Swinburne (Contributor), May Swinson (Contributor), Alfred Tennyson, Lord (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), Paul Valéry (Contributor), Paul Verlaine (Contributor), Sylvia Townsend Warner (Contributor), Theodore Weiss (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), P.G. Wodehouse (Contributor), William Wordsworth (Contributor), W.B. Yeats (Contributor), Émile Zola (Contributor)

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In this amazingly diverse new anthology, the eternal cat is captured in the prose and poetry of the world's finest writers from Aesop to Zola. Here are stories by European masters of the form - Balzac, Chekhov, Wodehouse, Saki, and Colette - along with such American masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Damon Runyon, and Ernest Hemingway. The best in contemporary writing is well represented, too, by Joyce Carol Oates, James Herriot, Alice Adams, Angela Carter, and Ursula K. Le Guin, to name just a few. And the poets - from Keats and Emily Dickinson to Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and, of course, Old Possum himself, T.S. Eliot. Finally, a wonderful group of pieces called "The Truth About Cats" collects the wisdom of the ages ranging from Herodotus to Benjamin Franklin to William Faulkner, with many a delightful digression along the way. Utterly irresistible, The Sophisticated Cat is rich, eclectic, and universal in its appeal, the perfect anthology to dip into or to read from cover to cover for all of us who feel the affinity, unbroken for thousands of years, between the soul of that magnificent creature, the cat, and our own. And the perfect gift for cosmopolitan cat-lovers of every literary stripe.… (more)
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Too many stories about cat abuse and death to be considered good for cat lovers. There are a few good stories here, but overall it's a no. ( )
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In this amazingly diverse new anthology, the eternal cat is captured in the prose and poetry of the world's finest writers from Aesop to Zola. Here are stories by European masters of the form - Balzac, Chekhov, Wodehouse, Saki, and Colette - along with such American masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Damon Runyon, and Ernest Hemingway. The best in contemporary writing is well represented, too, by Joyce Carol Oates, James Herriot, Alice Adams, Angela Carter, and Ursula K. Le Guin, to name just a few. And the poets - from Keats and Emily Dickinson to Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and, of course, Old Possum himself, T.S. Eliot. Finally, a wonderful group of pieces called "The Truth About Cats" collects the wisdom of the ages ranging from Herodotus to Benjamin Franklin to William Faulkner, with many a delightful digression along the way. Utterly irresistible, The Sophisticated Cat is rich, eclectic, and universal in its appeal, the perfect anthology to dip into or to read from cover to cover for all of us who feel the affinity, unbroken for thousands of years, between the soul of that magnificent creature, the cat, and our own. And the perfect gift for cosmopolitan cat-lovers of every literary stripe.

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