A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year

Crafty companions and mewling muses - the finest felines in literature

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<p><b>"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." </b><br>- Mark Twain</p><p>Cats and literature go together like tea and cake. It's not that you can't have one without the other, but there is a certain rightness to the pairing. Writers have chosen many animal companions over the years - often dogs, sometimes a raven (Charles Dickens) or, most oddly, a wombat (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) - but perhaps the most common is the cat.</p><p>From <i>Six Dinner Sid</i> and T.S. Eliot's rebellious Rum Tum Tugger to the infuriating Cheshire Cat of Wonderland and Behemoth the Cat, the demonic shapeshifter of Bulgakov's <i>The Master and Margarita,</i> <i>A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year</i> draws together quotes and passages from poems and stories in celebration of the most famous cats in literature.</p><p>A must-have for all cat-lovers and book lovers, this inspirational collection is the perfect gift for feline fans to treasure all year long.</p><p><b>Highlight's include:</b><br>- January: <i>Kiki's Delivery Service, </i>Unofficial Science Fiction Day and Happy birthday Haruki Murakami<br>- February: Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day and a 'Sonnet to Mrs Reynold's Cat'<br>- March: World Book Day, Mother's Day and a quick trip to Lewis Caroll's Wonderland<br>- April: Easter, Happy birthday Nick Hornby and a visit with Granny Weatherwax's kitten, You from <i>Wintersmith</i><br>- May: Mother's Day (US), International Towel Day and sit a spell with beloved poet and purveyor of nonsense Edward Lear<br>- June: Father's Day, Happy birthday Thomas Hardy and a golden moment with literature's most famous (and naughtiest) cats - Behemoth<br>- July: Spend some time with Henry David Thoreau in <i>Walden</i>, pay a visit to the vast, crumbling castle of <i>Gormenghast</i> and along the way, we'll meet a talking cat from <i>Kafka on the Shore</i><br>- August: International Cat Day, Happ

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780753735664

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

200 x 132 x 23 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Octopus Publishing Group