The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories

Cat fanciers will want to curl up with this collection of tales about felines of many temperaments - adventurous, naive, crafty, and independent. Nearly thirty stories offer a rich variety of moods and settings, from H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale of revenge,
The Cats of Ulthar,
to Honore de Balzac’s droll satire of British respectability,
The Afflictions of an English Cat. Selections include Emile Zola’s fable
Cat’s Paradise,
in which an indoor cat takes to the streets;
Gipsy
by Booth Tarkington, a brilliant study of a wild cat;
The Cat that Walked by Himself
from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories;
Tom Quartz
by Mark Twain;
How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe
by Charles G. D. Roberts; Charles Perrault’s classic rendition of
Puss in Boots ; and entrancing cat tales by Saki, Bram Stoker, Theophile Gautier, and others.