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A handsome tom who saves his beloved Koma. Great Rumpus Cat: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: T. S. Eliot: A hero in the world of the book and the musical. Greebo Discworld: Terry Pratchett: A foul-tempered, one-eyed grey tomcat whose owner, Nanny Ogg, insists against all the evidence that he is a sweet, harmless kitten.
Ruth MacDonald asserts, "The Cat in the Hat is the book that made Dr. Seuss famous. Without The Cat, Seuss would have remained a minor light in the history of children's literature." [46] Donald Pease concurs, writing, "The Cat in the Hat is the classic in the archive of Dr. Seuss stories for which it serves as a cornerstone and a linchpin.
Coloured cut from a children's book published in New York, c. 1850 (Dunigan's edition). Dick Whittington and His Cat is the English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London. [1] The legend describes his rise from poverty-stricken childhood with the fortune he made ...
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
88. The Cat Who Went to Heaven is a 1930 novel by Elizabeth Coatsworth that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1931. [1] The story is about a penniless Japanese artist and a calico cat his housekeeper brings home. The storyline is supposedly based on an old Buddhist folk tale, and includes, as asides, a ...
Quran ( Surah As-Sajdah) Apocalypse of Peter. Azrael ( / ˈæzri.əl, - reɪ -/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized : ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; [2] Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized : ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the canonical angel of death in Islam, [3] and appears in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter. [4]
Puss in Boots. " Puss in Boots " ( German: Der gestiefelte Kater; French: Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté; Italian: Il gatto con gli stivali; Dutch: De Gelaarsde Kat) is a European fairy tale about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and low-born ...
In his French version of the story, La Fontaine gave it the title Le chien qui lâche sa proie pour l'ombre (The dog who relinquished his prey for its shadow VI.17), where ombre has the same ambiguity of meaning. Thereafter, and especially during the 19th century, the English preference was to use the word shadow in the fable's title.