The Mammoth Book of Cats (Mammoth Books)
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ISBN: 0786706511 / Publisher: Running Press, September 1999
Celebrating all things feline, a collection of cat odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes, and caterwauls offers readers a survey of writings, meditations, and ruminations of this beloved creature
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The ultimate cat-lover's literary anthology - 200,000 words on cats from ancient Greece to today.Everything feline from the finely honed lyrics of Keats and Baudelaire to the madcap waggery of Don Marquis and Edward Lear; from Rabelais and Emerson to Twain and Runyon packs The Mammoth Book of Cats. With odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes, or just plain caterwauls, Mark Bryant has assembled a fascinating international compendium of the cat, drawing on sources from all periods of history and revealing every aspect of its four-footed subject.
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