Excerpt: "So wrote Mr. Alexander Pope, whom Nicholas Wogan remembers as a bookish boy in the little Catholic colony of Windsor Forest. The line might serve as a motto for the story which Mr. Wogan (now a one-armed retired colonel of Dillon's Irish Brigade in French Service) is about to tell. The beginnings of our whole mischancy business were trivial in themselves, and in all appearance unrelated to the future. They were nothing more important than...

This volume includes 25 wonderful, wondrous stories and two poems about cats, by major authors old and new.

Included are:

INTRODUCTION: ...IN THE DARK, by Robert Reginald

SEVEN SAW MURDER, by G. T. Fleming-Roberts

THE CATS, by H. P. Lovecraft (poem)

THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS, by A. R. Morlan

THE CAT AND THE BIRDS, by Aesop

THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS, by Robert E. Howard

OUT OF PLACE, by Pamela Sargent

THE FOX AND THE CAT, by the Brothers

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Presents Homer's classic epic of the Trojan War, which follows proud Greek soldier Achilles from his angry dispute with his king, Agamemnon, to his battle with and brutal treatment of Troy's great hero, Hector; and includes a glossary of names and an introduction.

A collection of more than thirty fairy tales gathered from all over the world.

A collection of thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of Lithuania, Africa, Germany, Greece, and France.