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A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year : Crafty companions and mewling muses   the finest felines in literature - Tara Richardson

A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year

Crafty companions and mewling muses the finest felines in literature

By: Tara Richardson

Hardcover | 21 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

-Mark Twain

Cats and literature go together like tea and cake. It's not that you can't have one without the other, but there is a certain rightness to the pairing. Writers have chosen many animal companions over the years - often dogs, sometimes a raven (Charles Dickens) or, most oddly, a wombat (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) - but perhaps the most common is the cat.

From Six Dinner Sid and T.S. Eliot's rebellious Rum Tum Tugger to the infuriating Cheshire Cat of Wonderland and Behemoth the Cat, the demonic shapeshifter of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, A Literary Cat for Every Day of the Year draws together quotes and passages from poems and stories in celebration of the most famous cats in literature.

A must-have for all cat-lovers and book lovers, this inspirational collection is the perfect gift for feline fans to treasure all year long.

About the Author

Tara Richardson is a writer and editor based in south London, where she lives with her partner and about forty houseplants. She writes (and edits) books on well-being, gardening, food and drink, and all the other little things that make life a bit shinier.

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