Author: Carl Van Vechten
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590172230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Book Description
The enormously erudite and unfailingly charming Carl Van Vechten sings the praises of the most enigmatic of human companions in this witty, learned, and unabashedly opinionated book, one of the most enjoyable and wide-ranging of literary reckonings with the animal world. Carl Van Vechten was an esteemed photographer, novelist, and critic, a champion of modernism and the Harlem renaissance. His deepest devotion, however, was to the feline, an animal who, as he writes, “has been a god, a companion of sorceresses at the Witches’ Sabbath, a beast who is royal in Siam, who in Japan is called ‘the tiger who eats from the hand,’ the adored of Mohammed, Laura’s rival with Petrarch, the friend of Richelieu’s idle moments, the favorite of poet and prelates.” All cat haters are here served notice to beware. The Tiger in the Houseis an unparalleled paean to the quirks and qualities of the cat. To it, Van Vechten brings a remarkable expertise in every kind of human endeavor: science, literature, art, history, law, music, and folklore from around the world, not to mention the most important thing of all–his personal experience of his own beloved cats.
Author: Marshall Saunders
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 8829526754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Pussy Black-Face, or, “The story of a kitten and her friends” is a book for boys and girls written by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe. Our story starts with Pussy Black Face introducing himself - “My name is Pussy Black-Face, and I am a naughty young kitten. I wish I were good like my mother. She is the best cat that I ever saw. I try to be like her, and sometimes I succeed, but most times I don't.” Known to all as Black Face, this cat is a mischievous kitten who does things most cats do, like sleep, eat and hog the warmth of the fire and sleep even more. Black Face and his friends are looked after by Mrs. Darley. She is a widow with two adopted children—Billy and Margaret. Black Face has a sister named Serena, and a brother called Jimmy Dory. But, Black Face is not the first cat which most people choose to stroke or pick up to cuddle. Neither is Black face the most agile cat. He is the most adventurous of the siblings, and is forever knocking over ornaments, and other precious nick-knacks, quite often breaking them. As the summer came on, Mrs Darley opened up the house and Black Face and his friends were allowed to explore the pavement while their mother and father sat on the wide window sill watching. “Beware of the naughty boys,” his mother warned. The kittens began to play with a pebble and chase it along the pavement. Before they realised it they had lost sight of the house and chased the pebble right into the hands of the very boys their mother had warned them about. And so began the adventures of Black Face and his friends…… But what happened next you ask? Well you will have to download and read this book to find out for yourselves! YESTERDAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. ================= KEYWORDS-TAGS: Pussy black face, kitten, friends, fireside, cat, refuge, surprise, change, visit, family, common land, first, fight, sensation, serena, astonish, train, country, maine, lovely, headstrong, sister, pigs, cows, chickens, lecture, mole-hunt, return, children, mischievous, guinea-hen, owl, close, summer, back to, city, again, Action, Adventure, afraid, Angora, Anthony, baggage-master, barn, basket, beautiful, Black-Face, Blizzard, body, Boston, boxes, carriage, cats, chickens, children, Children’s Story, claws, Clean, Common, corner, cows, cuddle, dairy, dark, Darley, Della, Denno, Denville, dog, Dolly, Dory, down-stairs, drink, eat, escape, Fairy Tale, family, farmer, father, Fear, fight, Folk tale, follow, fright, Gleason, guinea-hens, happy, hawk, heart, hen-house, home, horses, human, hungry, Jimmy, Joker, kennel, kitten, lady, large, lick, little, love, Maine, mamma, Mary, meadow, meow, milk, mistress, mole-hunt, Mona, mother, mouth, nurse, orchard, pavement, play, protect, purr, pussy, Pussy, Rosy, run, running, safety, save, saviour, scared, Serena, sister, Slyboots, starving, station, strange, street, stroke, summer, Tabby, Thirsty, tired, Tree stump, trees, trouble, vulgar, walked, water, window, Wyandotte, yard
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Author: Carl Van Vechten
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