Lords of the Housetops

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.

Autorentext
Carl van Vechten, 1880 in Iowa geboren und 1964 in New York gestorben, war Redakteur der New York Times, Bestsellerautor, Fotograf und eine der schillerndsten Figuren der New Yorker Boheme. Van Vechten gilt als wichtiger Unterstützer der Harlem Renaissance und enger Gefährte von Gertrude Stein, deren literarischen Nachlass er verwaltete.