Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Harvest Book): The Classic Illustrated Edition That Inspired the Musical Cats―By Nobel Prize-Winning Poet T.S. Eliot - Softcover

Eliot, T. S.

 
9780156685702: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Harvest Book): The Classic Illustrated Edition That Inspired the Musical Cats―By Nobel Prize-Winning Poet T.S. Eliot

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An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliot’s intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. “Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses” (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.

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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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Mr. T.S. Eliot intimate friends received from time to time typewritten verses which were apparently anonymous but which were always identifiable. The poems which concern cats are presented here.

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