Peggy Bacon: 4 books

This carefully crafted ebook: "Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales by Balzac, Poe, Twain and others" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Lords of the Housetops is a carefully chosen collection of thirteen tales about the beloved, clever...

The drawing on the cover of this book, and the subtitle above, make it quite clear that the story of Opalina involves a cat. It can even be assumed to contain a ghost cat. Beyond that, the reader must proceed to devour this book in order to discover the amazing variety of its contents.  About all we...

In the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary preference on the part of authors are perfectly easy to explain. The instinctive acts of the dog, who is...

"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...