House Cat Mark Twain, from Pudd''nbead Wilson , A Perfect Home Michel Eyquem Montaigne, from Essais II xii Eleanor Farjeon, Cats Sleep Anywhere Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield, Room to Swing a Cat Lewis Carroll, from A tangled Table , Eligible Apartments Ford Madox Ford, from ''The House'' Charles Baudelaire, Le Chat Elizabeth Bishop, Lullaby for the Cat Daniel Defoe, from Robison Crusoe Walter de la Mare, Puss Algernon Charles Swinburne, To a Cat James Boswell, from The Life of Samuel Johnson Mark Twain, from Rougbing It, A wonderful Cat Christopher Smart, from''Jubilate Ango'' Attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier, For a Little Girl Mourning Her Favorite Cat Hunter Michael Joseph, from Cat''s Company , The Worth of a Cat Walter de la Mare, Five Eyes John Keats, On Mrs. Reynolds''s Cat Richard Adams, from Watership Down , A Good Rabbit''s a Match for a Cat, Any Day Anon, translated from the Yoruba by Ulli Beier , Leopard Charlotte Brontë, from Villette , Like a Cat Geoffrey Chaucer, from the Canterbury Tales , from ''The Manciple''s Tale'' Matthew Arnold, from ''Poor Matthias'' Charles Darwin, from on the Origin of Species, A Web of Complex Relations Gilbert White, from The Natural History of Selborne , Their Violent Fondness for Fish Thomas Gray, On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Fishes O.Henry, The Princess and the Puma Johann Wyss, from The Swiss Family Robinson , The Most Lamentable and Dreadful Sound D.H. Lawrence, Mountain Lion Eighth-Century Irish Monk, The Monk and His Cat Cat Tales W.S. Gilbert, from HMS Pinafore Act II, The Elopement of the Captain''s Daughter Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland , The Cheshire-Cat William Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice Act IV, scene i Thomas Flatman, An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love Charles Dickens, from Bleak House , Lady Jane Peter Christen Asbjörsen, from East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The ''Cat'' on the Dovrefell E.A Wallis Budge, from The Book of the Dead, Feline Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Herodotus, from Histories , translated by Tom Holland, Ancient Egyptian Cats Jaromir Malek, from The Cat in Ancient Egypt Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories , The Cat that Walked by Himself Traditional, Nursery Rhymes Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat Jonathan Swift, from Gullliver''s Travels , Gulliver Encounters the Giants'' Cat Walter Savage Landor, from Imaginary Conversations , La Fontaine and de la Rouchefoucault Mervyn Peake, from Titus Groan, The Cat Room Traditional, from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry edited by William Bulter Yeats, The Demon Cat John Gribbin, from In Search of Schrödinger''s Cat Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Oscar Wilde, from ''The Sphinx'' William Butler Yeats, The Cat and the Moon Kitten Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, from Penguin Handbooks: Cats, The Care and Training of Kittens Lewis Carroll, from Through and Looking Glass , An Inconvenient Habit of Kittens Lewis Carroll, from Through and Looking Glass, The Black Kitten Robertson Davies, from The Dairy of Samuel Marchbanks , Tiger Thomas Hood, Choosing their Names Gilbert White, from The Natural History of Selborne, This Strange Affection Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Tom Kitten William Wordsworth, The Kitten and Falling Leaves Big Cat William Blake, The Tyger William Blake, from ''Proverbs of Hell'' John Milton, from Paradise Lost , Satan''s First Sight of Adam and Eve The Bible, Book of Daniel 6:16-27, Daniel in the Lions'' Den Edward Fitzgerald (translator), from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, XVII Erasmus Darwin, Love Riding on the Lion C.

S. Lewis, from the Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe, The Triumph of the Witch The Brothers Grimm, from Household Stories, The Lark and the Lion Niccolò Macchiavelli, from The Prince William Blake, from ''Proverbs of Hell'' Arthur Morrison and J.A. Shepherd, from The Strand Magazine , Zig Zags at the Zoo Hilaire Belloc, The Lion Hilaire Belloc, The Tiger.