[Download free pdf] The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics)
✿ Carl Van Vechten ✿
| #1309594 in Books | 2007-03-27 | 2007-03-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.74 x1.35 x5.78l,1.30 | File Name: 159017223X | 452 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Caressing the Tiger|By Owl|Carl Van Vechten was a man about the art, music, literary, photographic world of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Among his achievements was celebrating the Harlem Renaissance and creating hundreds of perceptive beautiful photographs. He died in 1964 but did not really make it past WWII in his interests and there is some doubt if he ever made it much be||"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
“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...
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