Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot

ISBN 10: 0140864121 / ISBN 13: 9780140864120

Published by Penguin, 1997

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140864121
• ISBN 13: 9780140864120
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 68 grams

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Synopsis

T.S. Eliot’s famous cats are brought to mewling, hissing, purring life in this enchanting recording featuring Richard Briers, Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs and Juliet Stevenson.

Meet Mr Mistoffelees, the magical cat who can perform an astonishing array of tricks; Old Deuteronomy, the most placid cat in his village; the Rum Tum Tugger, a most contrary and difficult cat; and of course Macavity, the celebrated master criminal.

A delight from the first minute to the last, 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' deserves a place in every feline-loving home.

About the Author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America. From Harvard he went off to Oxford, and, thereafter, he was to make England his home, in 1927, he became a citizen of Britain. T. S. Eliot was both a literary and social critic; he wrote voluminously, mostly essays and poetry. He was as Chambers describes him, "hierarchal and undemocratic." Chambers was of the further view that his best work, published in 1944, was Four Quartets, "one of the greatest philosophical poems in the language." In 1948, T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel prize for literature