New Roger Caras Treasury of Great Cat Stories

by CARAS R

• ISBN13: 9781578660988
• ISBN10: 157866098X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Bbs Pub Corp

Summary

Mysterious, amusing, and always surprising, the domestic cat has padded its way into the hearts of animal lovers and, as this collection reveals, some of the world's greatest writers. Award-winning nature writer Roger Caras provides us with this big, new collection of tales all on the virtues of cats. Representing a wide range of styles, the authors in this anthology provide an irresistible array of stories. Cleveland Amory compares the human and feline aging processes in "A Cat for All Seasons". Ernest Hemingway paints an unforgettable scene about the allure of a wet stray in "Cat in the Rain". And P. G. Wodehouse doles out a generous portion of English wit in the delightful romp, "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch". This volume celebrates the once-wild creature that has established a special place in the literature, lore, legends, and living rooms of their human admirers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	x
A Cat for All Seasons	1	(19)
Cleveland Amory
Cat in the Rain	20	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
Long Live the Queen	24	(17)
Ruth Rendell
The Cat Hotel	41	(17)
Fritz Leiber
Nashville Gone to Ashes	58	(8)
Amy Hempel
Schrodinger's Cat	66	(9)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Affection	75	(15)
Cornelia Nixon
A Long Time Sitting	90	(14)
Charlotte Macleod
The White Cat	104	(24)
Joyce Carol Oates
Cats	128	(10)
Robley Wilson, Jr.
Skitty	138	(15)
Mercedes Lackey
Noble Warrior	153	(28)
Andre Norton
Clara's Cat	181	(19)
Elizabeth Moon
Asking Mr. Bigelow	200	(21)
Susan Shwartz
The Maltese Double Cross	221	(19)
Carole Nelson Douglas
The Duel	240	(9)
J. A. Jance
Nine Lives to Live	249	(17)
Sharyn McCrumb
Fat Cat	266	(19)
Nancy Pickard
Enduring as Dust	285	(19)
Bruce Holland Rogers
How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo	304	(19)
Bill Crider
A Cargo of Cat	323	(4)
Ambrose Bierce
The White and Black Dynasties	327	(9)
Theophile Gautier
Chicago and the Cat	336	(13)
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Touching Is Good for Living Creatures	349	(12)
Merrill Joan Gerber
The Islands	361	(16)
Alice Adams
Felis Catus	377	(18)
Gina Berriault
The Cat-Hood of Maurice	395	(15)
E. Nesbit
The White Cat	410	(7)
E. Nesbit
Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch	417	(15)
P. G. Wodehouse
The Afflictions of an English Cat	432	(15)
Honore De Balzac
Oscar the Socialite Cat	447	(15)
James Herriot
The Start of the End of it All	462	(14)
Carol Emshwiller
Teddy's Tale	476	(7)
Roger Caras
The Penance	483	(7)
Saki
Phut Phat Concentrates	490
Lilian Jackson Braun