Playful kittens & ruthless predators beloved pets & witches' familiars
- cats of all kinds come alive in these stories Maeve Brennan & Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their humans while writers as varied as Patricia Highsmith & Fritz Leiber imagine the intriguingly alien feline point of view Cats flaunt their undeniable superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of ' Puss-in-Boots' & Stephen Vincent Benet's uncanny ' The King of the Cats' while humour abounds in tales by comic masters P G Wodehouse & Saki The essential unknowableness of cats inspires the most exotic flights of fancy Calvino's secret city of cats in ' The Garden of Stubborn Cats' the disappearing animal in Ursula K Le Guin's brain-teasing ' Schroedinger's Cat' the cartoon rodent & his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's ' Cat 'n' Mouse' In these & other stories this delightful anthology offers cat lovers a many-faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection