The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told

Fascinating, frustrating, frolicsome, or frosty—this treasury filled with 30 tales of memorable felines is a testament to the amazing variety of kitty personalities. Who knows what goes on in their furry little heads? Some of our most famous writers have tackled that question in this perfect gift for any cat lover. See what they've come up with in yarns that feature protagonists as diverse as P.G. Wodehouse's whimsical Webster in the eponymous "The Story of Webster" and Edgar Allan Poe's chillingly nameless feline in "The Black Cat." Lillian / Damon Runyon -- Cats' Paradise / Emile Zola -- Tom Quartz / Mark Twain -- Ming's Biggest Prey / Patricia Highsmith -- The Cheshire Cat / Lewis Carroll -- The Garden of Stubborn Cats / Italo Calvino -- The Cat That Walked by Himself / Rudyard Kipling -- Rhubarb / H. Allen Smith -- The Cyprian Cat / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A Cat, a Man, and Two Women / Junichiro Tanizaki -- Puss-in-Boots / Angela Carter -- Mehitabel and Her Kittens / Don Marquis -- Calvin: a Study of Character / Charles Dudley Warner -- The Immortal Cat / Karel Capek -- Tobermory / Saki -- George Eliot: a Medical Study / Jean Stafford -- The Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black and White Dynasties / Theophile Gautier -- Piazza Vittorio / Eleanor Clark -- An Incident / Anton Chekhov -- A Black Affair / W.W. Jacobs -- Schrodinger's Cat / Ursula K. Le Guin -- I am a Cat / Soseki Natsume -- The Cat that Went to Trinity / Robertson Davies -- The Afflictions of an English Cat / Honore de Balzac -- Quixote and the Cats / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Midshipman, the Cat / John Coleman Adams -- Total Loss / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The Cat / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The Story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse