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Collection of stories about cats, including narratives from Mark Twain, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe and many others. "Now the cat, independent, liberty-loving, graceful, strong, resourceful, dignified, and self-respecting, has a psychology essentially feline, which has few points of contact with human psychology. The cat does not rescue babies from drowning or say his prayers in real life; consequently any attempt to make him do so in fiction would be ridiculous." Originally released in 1921.

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Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) war ein US-amerikanischer Fotograf und Autor. Er war bekannt als Unterstützer der Harlem Renaissance und als Verwalter des literarischen Nachlasses der Schriftstellerin, Verlegerin und Kunstmäzenin Gertrude Stein.

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