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Illustrated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: With Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley

Illustrated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: With Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley

by T S Eliot (Author)

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    Hardcover 1974

    $3.44

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    Paperback 1974

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Synopsis

These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and friends in the 1930s. They have delighted generations of children since, and inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's brilliant musical Cats. This edition includes illustrations by Nicolas Bentley.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 64
 Edition: First publication this edition
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Jan 1974
ISBN 10: 0571067751
ISBN 13: 9780571067756
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948

Author Bio
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou