What do you think?
Rate this book
The Triumphant Cat: An Anthology of Verse, Prose & Pictures Gathered from the Ancient & Modern Authors
An illustrated "cultural history" of the cat collects the prose and poetry observations of the ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese, T. S. Eliot, and Paul Gallico, among others. By the author of Mousing Days in Old Japan. National ad/promo.
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 1993
3 people are currently reading
25 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
December 2, 2020
A rather eccentric book. My (second hand) copy made even more so by the addition of handwritten poems and photos of cats cut from magazines glued in.
The book is arranged roughly chronologically. The mention of the word "cat" seems to be the only criteria for inclusion. Some quotes seem to actually be anti-Cat, ie Rudyard Kipling's throwing things at cats and the inclusion of the inside of cat's ears as 'squalid things ' in The Pillow Book.
The book is arranged roughly chronologically. The mention of the word "cat" seems to be the only criteria for inclusion. Some quotes seem to actually be anti-Cat, ie Rudyard Kipling's throwing things at cats and the inclusion of the inside of cat's ears as 'squalid things ' in The Pillow Book.
July 28, 2015
I like cats but, apparently, I don't like reading books about cats. The selections weren't bad but they didn't interest me at all. I also didn't like that there was seemingly no rhyme or reason to how the selections were put together.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews