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| Mark Bryant (ed). Whether celebrated in odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes or just plain caterwauls, cats have been part of our lives since ancient times. This book brings together the very best that has been written about cats in poetry & prose for more than a millennium. It includes: poets on cats, including Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, Shelley, William Wordsworth, & Oscar Wilde; writers such as Ellis Peters, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, George Mackay Brown, Saki, & Mark Twain; & jokes & humor from Lewis Carroll & Ambrose Bierce to Edward Lear & Jerome K. Jerome. Draws on resources from all periods of history. |
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