Cat Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) - Tesdell, Diana Secker

As New; Cat Stories brings together two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline by great writers of every stripe - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walter de la Mare to Italo Calvino, Doris Lessing, and Neil Gaiman. Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches- familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their humans, while writers as varied as Patricia Highsmith and Fritz Leiber imagine the intriguingly alien feline point of view. Cats flaunt their undeniable superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of "Puss-in-boots" and Stephen Vincent Bent's uncanny "The King of the Cats," while humor abounds in tales by comic masters Damon Runyon, P.G. Wodehouse, and Saki. The essential unknowableness of cats inspires the most exotic flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in "The Garden of Stubborn Cats," the disappearing animal in Ursula K. LeGuin's mind-twisting "Schrodinger's Cat," the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's "Cat 'n' Mouse." In these and other stories, this delightful anthology offers cat lovers a many-faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.
As New in As New dust jacket
Hardcover
Alfred A. Knopf 
2011
New York, NY