13 Cat Tales

"Lords of the Housetops" is a carefully chosen collection of thirteen tales about the beloved, clever and charismatic cat. We see the cat through the eyes of thirteen authors, including such famous writers as Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington and Edgar Allan Poe. Carl Van Vechten assembled and edited this collection.

Contents:

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat

Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut

Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion

Honoré de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat

Booth Tarkington: Gipsy

G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad

Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat

Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat

Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat

W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat

William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend

Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat

Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin

Alden, W. L. (William Livingston), 1837-1908 Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987 Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951 Carryl, Guy Wetmore, 1873-1904 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913 Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Powell, G. H. (George Herbert), 1856-1924 Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Livingston Chester Lord (1851 - 1933) was the second president of Eastern Illinois University, serving from 1898 to 1933.