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Cover of The King of the Cats and Other Feline Fairy Tales

The King of the Cats and Other Feline Fairy Tales

John Richard Stephens

First published 1993
Publisher Faber and Faber
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Lorna Stovall
Pages xii+273
Price $22.95
ISBN 0571198279

Front flap of Archive.org copy also has a £14.99 price under the US price.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Eleventh Night, The First Fable Giovanni Francesco Straparola Short Story
8 Puss in Boots Charles Perrault Short Story
13 Gagliuso Giambattista Basile Short Story
18 Beware the Cat (excerpt) William Baldwin Short Story
22 Sir Walter Scott's Cat Washington Irving Essay
24 The King of the Cats Charlotte S. Burne Short Story
26 The History of Whittington G. L. Gomme & H. B. Wheatley Short Story
33 The Origin of Venice Albert Short Story
34 The Genoese Merchant uncredited Short Story
37 The Island of Kais Wásif Short Story
39 The Honest Penny Peter Christen Asbjørnsen Short Story
44 The Cottager and His Cat J. C. Poestion Short Story
48 The Bremen Town Musicians Wilhelm Grimm & Jakob Grimm Short Story
52 The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
56 The Three Children of Fortune Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
59 The White Cat Countess d'Aulnoy Novelette
93 The Boy Who Drew Cats Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
97 The Cat That Walked by Himself Rudyard Kipling Short Story
109 Scratch Tom Walter Douglas Campbell Short Story
121 The Lion and the Cat uncredited Short Story
127 Conall Yellowclaw (excerpt) Joseph Jacobs Short Story
130 The Story of the Faithful Cat A. B. Mitford Short Story
132 The Cat Who Became a Queen Rev. J. Hinton Knowles Short Story
135 The Two Caskets Benjamin Thorpe Short Story
144 Lord Peter Peter Christen Asbjörnsen & Jörgen Engelbretsen Moe Short Story
149 The Cat's Elopement David Brauns Short Story
152 Owney and Owney-na-peak Gerald Griffin Short Story
164 The Clever Cat René Basset Short Story
174 Kisa Adeline Rittershaus Short Story
179 The Cat and the Cradle William Elliot Griffis Short Story
185 The Colony of Cats uncredited Short Story
191 The Gray Cat Jane G. Austin Short Story
205 Spiegel, the Kitten Gottfried Keller Novelette
236 Rumpty-Dudget's Tower Julian Hawthorne Novelette
254 The Cat That Winked Anna McClure Sholl Short Story
266 The Three White Cats unknown Short Story
ix Preface (The King of the Cats and Other Feline Fairy Tales) John Richard Stephens Essay
xi Introduction: The Magic in Cats' Eyes John Richard Stephens Essay