The Chatto Book of Cats - Softcover
This collection of writings from fiction, poetry, memoirs and drama contains entries from 5th-century Japan to Baudelaire, Medieval Italy to Vikram Seth. It brings out the various qualities of cats, and is divided into sections on kittenhood, names, eating, voices, wisdom, magic, hatred, love, fellow creatures and death. Francis Wheen is the author of "The Sixties", "Television", "The Battle for London" and "Tom Driberg", which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
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This anthology gathers writings from 5th-century Japan to Baudelaire, medieval Italy to Vikram Seth, to bring out the strangeness, beauty, comic qualities and sinister aspects of cats.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0701162031
- ISBN 13 9780701162030
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
- EditorWheen Francis
- IllustratorO'Connor John
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