The Chatto Book of Cats

Francis Wheen

Book (30 Sep 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This collection of writings from fiction, poetry, memoirs and drama contains entries from 5th-century Japan to Baudelaire, Medieval Italy to Vikram Seth. It brings out the various qualities of cats, and is divided into sections on kittenhood, names, eating, voices, wisdom, magic, hatred, love, fellow creatures and death. Francis Wheen is the author of "The Sixties", "Television", "The Battle for London" and "Tom Driberg", which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9780701140052
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	30 Sep 1993
DEWEY:	808.8036
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	406
Weight:	-1g