The Cat Lover's Library: 30 Books of Feline Narratives

Classic Feline Tales of Childhood, Mystery, Fantasy, and the UncannyBy Miranda Eliot Swan, Colette, Lucy Gray, May E. Southworth, Margaret Benson, Pierre Loti, H. P. Lovecraft, Georgiana M. Craik, Marshall Saunders, Caroline Fuller, Marion Ames Taggart, Julia Charlotte Maitland, Tabitha Grimalkin, Alfred Elwes, Laura Lee Hope, Katharine Pyle, Amy Ella Blanchard, David Cory, Richard Barnum, Arthur Scott Bailey, Laura Rountree Smith, F. R. Morgan, Jim Kjelgaard, Beatrix Potter, Helen Hunt Jackson, Eulalie Osgood Grover

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The Cat Lover's Library gathers thirty feline narratives into a capacious archive of animal fiction, domestic fantasy, moral tale, adventure, picture-book charm, and Gothic unease. Its range moves from intimate accounts of household companionship to imagined animal societies and perilous encounters at the margins of wilderness and childhood. Humorous cat-centered episodes sit beside sentimental narratives, instructive stories, and darker speculative visions, making the volume a revealing cross-section of the many literary uses of the cat: confidant, comic agent, moral witness, predator, and uncanny presence. The contributors represent a broad late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century field of popular and children's literature, alongside major currents in realist travel writing, animal advocacy, domestic fiction, folklore-inflected fantasy, and supernatural storytelling. Their differing national, cultural, and generic traditions show how feline figures could mediate questions of care, independence, class, childhood, nature, and the mysterious life of nonhuman creatures. Read collectively, these voices illuminate the period's shifting attitudes toward animals as both cherished companions and imaginative subjects. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers of animal studies, children's literature, genre fiction, and literary history. It offers the rare opportunity to compare concise fables, richly imagined adventures, tender domestic sketches, and unsettling tales within one volume. Its breadth invites attentive reading and fosters a lively dialogue about why cats have remained such enduringly versatile presences in literature.

Adventure Exploration Nature & Wilderness Survival Identity Family Journey Folklore Psychological Hero

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1Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales by Balzac, Poe, Twain and others

2The Life and Adventures of Poor Puss

3The Adventures of a Cat, and a Fine Cat Too!

4PREFACE.

5A NEW LEAF.

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6THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

7The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr

8PUSS IN BOOTS, JR., BEGINS HIS TRAVELS

9PUSS LEARNS WHERE HIS FATHER IS AND RECEIVES A TART FROM THE QUEEN

10PUSS, JR., MEETS MR. ROWLEY FROG

11THE BRIDE RECEIVES SOME HANDSOME PRESENTS

12Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe

13PUSS JUNIOR AND ROBINSON CRUSOE

14FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS

15A SAD ENDING

16CRUSOE CASTLE

17The alley cat's kitten

18CHAPTER ONE

19CHAPTER TWO

20CHAPTER THREE

21CHAPTER FOUR

22CHAPTER FIVE

23CHAPTER SIX

24CHAPTER SEVEN

25CHAPTER EIGHT

26CHAPTER NINE

27CHAPTER TEN

28CHAPTER ELEVEN

29CHAPTER TWELVE

30CHAPTER THIRTEEN

31CHAPTER FOURTEEN

32CHAPTER FIFTEEN

33CHAPTER SIXTEEN

34Blackie, a Lost Cat: Her Many Adventures

35CHAPTER I BLACKIE HEARS SOMETHING

36CHAPTER II BLACKIE RUNS AWAY

37CHAPTER III BLACKIE IN TROUBLE

38CHAPTER IV BLACKIE GETS OUT

39CHAPTER V BLACKIE FINDS A FRIEND

40CHAPTER VI BLACKIE IN A BASKET

41CHAPTER VII BLACKIE IN A TRAIN

42CHAPTER VIII BLACKIE IS CHASED

43CHAPTER IX BLACKIE MEETS DON

44CHAPTER X BLACKIE SCARES A DOG

45CHAPTER XI BLACKIE IS SAD

46CHAPTER XII BLACKIE IS HAPPY

47Swamp Cat

48The characters and situations in this book are wholly fictional and imaginative: they do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties.

49THE FIRST PLANTING

50PARTNERS