Horace Walpole's Cat

by Christopher Frayling

This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had "a very fine cat indeed") and his sometimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500514917
• ISBN13: 9780500514917
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.0" x 12.5"