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Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe�from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in �The Garden of Stubborn Cats,� the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin's mind-twisting �Schr�dinger's Cat,� the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's �Cat 'n' Mouse.� Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of �Puss-in-Boots� and in Stephen Vincent Ben�t's �The King of the Cats,� in which two impossibly suave foreigners are revealed as even more exotic than they pretend to be. In �The Islands� by Alice Adams and �I See You, Bianca� by Maeve Brennan we see how much cats can mean to their humans. And the inimitable Saki lets us hear what cats really think of us in �Tobermory,� his tale of a tactless talking animal.In these and other stories, this delightful book offers cat lovers a many- faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.