Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories
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Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories

1987
American Short storiesCatsEnglish Short storiesFictionShort stories, Americanhorror fictionChildren's fictionshort storyfirst-person narrativeunreliable narratorsself-hatredgallows

Contains: The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The cat by the fire / Leigh Hunt -- The white cat / W.W. Jacobs -- [The black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Cats / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- The cat / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Calvin, the cat / Charles Dudley Warner -- Ye marvelous legend of Tom Connor's cat / Samuel Lover -- Dick Baker's cat / Mark Twain -- The conscientious cat / Agnes A. Sandham -- He wrote to the rats / Julian Ralph -- The philanthropist and the happy cat ; Tobermory / Saki -- Midshipman, the cat / John Coleman Adams -- A black affair / W.W. Jacobs -- "When in doubt--wash!" ; Jennie's lessons to Peter on how to behave like a cat / Paul Gallico -- The witch's cat / Manly Wade Wellman -- A feline felony / Lael J. Littke -- The Cyprian cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Novice / James H. Schmitz -- The fat cat / Q. Patrick -- My father, the cat / Henry Slesar -- The sin of Madame Phloi / Lilian Jackson Braun -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- Podolo / L.P. Hartley -- Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber -- Spooner / Eleanor Farjeon -- The story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse -- Out of place / Pamela Sargent -- Cat nipped / Jack Schaefer -- The cat who lived in a drainpipe / Joan Aiken -- Some are born cats / Terry and Carol Carr -- Autumn : the garden of stubborn cats / Italo Calvino.

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