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008			150909q2015 xx 000 0 eng d
020			_a1781554900
020			_a9781781554906
035			_a(OCoLC)921187080
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn921187080
040			_aYDXCP _beng _cYDXCP _dBDX _dEQO _dOCLCO _dNz
082			_a636.8
100	1		_aStuart, Dorothy Margaret.
245	0	0	_aBook of cats : _bliterary, legendary and historical.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bFonthill Media, _c2015.
520			_a "Dorothy Stuart approaches her subject along four main roads: archaeology, history, legend and literature. The cat emerges by turns as a goddess, an enigma, a playmate and a friend. The Ancient Egyptian Mau is here; the enchanted cats of Irish legend; the Gib of Gammer Gurton's Needle. Hodge and Selima, Jeffry and Dinah refused to be left out; but there are less familiar examples, too: the cat which voluntarily shared the Earl of Southampton's captivity in the Tower; the kitten in whose defense John Keats had a standup fight with a brutal butcher-boy of Hampstead; the delinquent who at dead of night gnawed the strings of her master's lute. Graymalkin, the witches' familiar, comes into the picture; and we catch fascinating glimpses of two furry sympathizers licking the tears from Florence Nightingale's cheeks, and of Cardinal Richelieu solemnly adding something on behalf of a cat and her kittens to the modest pension assigned by His Eminence to Mademoiselle Marie de Gournay, Montaigne's 'polished female friend'."--Amazon website.
650		0	_aCats _xMythology.
650		0	_aCats _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aCats _vFolklore.
650		0	_aCats in literature.
650		7	_aCats. _2fast
942			_2ddc _cNONFIC
999			_c36079 _d36079