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Review
"Every lover of cats should own this book...the best single treatise on the cat, spiritually rather than biologically considered, that we have ever seen."--Chicago Evening Post

"The Tiger in the House is absolutely fascinating. As a matter of fact, it is a treasure house. The little scraps of literary gossip in it alone make it absolutely indispensable for anyone who likes to explore the hedgy bypaths of an author's life and thoughts. I wouldn't be without it for anything."--Chicago Tribune

"At last the cat has a book worthy of him...luxurious, regal, self-certain, and complete."--New York Evening Post

Carl Van Vechten wrote "what many think the two best books about cats ever published, Lords of the Housetops and The Tiger in the House."--The Chicago Daily Tribune

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“A god, a companion to sorceresses at the Witches’ Sabbath, a beast who is royal in Siam, who in Japan is called ‘the tiger that eats from the hand,’ the adored of Mohammed, Laura’s rival with Petrarch, the friend of Richelieu, the favorite of poets”—such are just a few of the feline distinctions that Carl Van Vechten records in this glorious historical overview of humanity’s long love affair with the cat. As delightful as it is learned, Tiger in the House explores science, art, and history to assemble a treasury of cat lore, while Van Vechten’s sumptuous baroque prose
makes the book’s every page an inexhaustible pleasure.

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Whenever the subject comes up, and it may be said, speaking with moderation, that if comes up forty times a day, some one invariably declares, "No, I don't like cats, I like dogs." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Madame Michelet, Samuel Butler, United States, Miss Savage, Andrew Lang, George Moore, Henry James, Madame Ronner, Miss Repplier, Oliver Herford, Pierre Loti, Raoul Gineste, Don Quixote, Fanny Elssler, George Mivart, Harrison Weir, Heinrich Heine, John Silence, Agnes Repplier, Anatole France, Bleak House, Edmund Gosse, Lafcadio Hearn, Louis Wain New!
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