Lords of the Housetops - Public Domain

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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 Allen Poe.

Carl Van Vechten assembled and edited this collection, along with translating de Balzac's offering from French to English.

Here are the cat tales your will enjoy in this work:

The Cat by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Zut by Guy Wetmore Carryl

A Psychical Invasion by Algernon Blackwood

The Afflictions of an English cat by Honore de Balzac

Gipsy by Booth Tarkington

The Blue Dryad by George Herbert Powell

Dick Baker's Cat by Mark Twain

The Black Cat by Edgar A. Poe

Madame Jolicoeur's Cat by Thomas Allibone Janvier

A Friendly Rat by William Henry Hudson

Monty's Friend by William Livingston Alden

The Queen's Cat by Peggy Bacon

Calvin by Charles Dudley Warner