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    Lives of Two Cats
    Lives of Two Cats
    Lives of Two Cats
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    Lives of Two Cats

    By Pierre Loti

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    "Lives of Two Cats" by Pierre Loti (translated by Mary B. Richards). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateAug 21, 2022
    ISBN4064066418236
    Lives of Two Cats
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    Pierre Loti

    Pierre Loti, né Louis Marie Julien Viaud le 14 janvier 1850 à Rochefort et décédé le 10 juin 1923 à Hendaye, est un écrivain français de renom et officier de marine. Sa carrière littéraire, nourrie par ses voyages autour du monde, l'a établi comme un maître de la littérature exotique et un observateur perspicace des cultures étrangères. Entré à l'École navale en 1867, Loti commence une carrière d'officier qui le mène aux quatre coins du globe. Ces expériences alimentent son oeuvre littéraire, marquée par des romans comme « Aziyadé » (1879), « Le Mariage de Loti » (1882), et « Pêcheur d'Islande » (1886), qui lui valent une immense popularité. Son style, caractérisé par un lyrisme sensible et une capacité à capturer l'essence des lieux et des cultures, se retrouve dans « Quelques aspects du vertige mondial ». Cet ouvrage témoigne de son engagement intellectuel face aux bouleversements de la Première Guerre mondiale, offrant une analyse géopolitique nourrie par sa vaste expérience internationale. Élu à l'Académie française en 1891, Loti continue d'écrire et de voyager, produisant des témoignages historiques précieux comme « La Turquie agonisante » (1913). Son oeuvre, oscillant entre romans exotiques et réflexions sur les changements mondiaux, fait de lui un témoin privilégié de son époque. La sensibilité de Loti aux cultures étrangères et sa capacité à analyser les bouleversements sociaux se reflètent pleinement dans « Quelques aspects du vertige mondial », confirmant son statut d'écrivain-voyageur et d'observateur avisé des transformations de son temps.

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      Lives of Two Cats - Pierre Loti

      Pierre Loti

      Lives of Two Cats

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066418236

      Table of Contents

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      (I)

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      I HAVE often seen, with a questioning restlessness infinitely sad, the soul of animals meet mine from the depths of their eyes: the soul of a cat, the soul of a dog, the soul of a monkey, as pathetically, for an instant, as a human soul, revealing itself suddenly in a glance and seeking my own soul with tenderness, supplication, or terror; and I have felt perhaps more pity for these souls of animals than for those of my own brethren, because they are speechless, incapable of emerging from their semi-intelligence; above all, because they are more humble and despised.

      (II)

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      THE two cats whose histories I am about to write are associated in memory with comparatively happy years of my life,—years scarce past by the dates they bear, but years already seeming in the remote past, borne away by the frightfully accelerating speed of time, and which, placed beside the gray to-day, bear tints of early dawn or last rosy light of morning. So fast our days hasten to the twilight, so fast our fall to the night.

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      PARDON me that I call each of my cats Pussy. At first I had no idea of giving names to my pets. A cat was Pussy, a kitten Kitty; and surely no names could be more expressive and tender than these. I shall call the poor little personages of my story by the names they bore in their real lives, Pussy White and Pussy Gray; the latter often known as Pussy Chinese.

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      AS the oldest, allow me first to present the Angora, Pussy White. Her visiting card, by her desire, was thus inscribed—

      MADAME MOUMOUTTE BLANCHE

      Première chatte

      Chez M. Pierre Loti.

      On a memorable evening nearly twelve years ago, I saw her for the first time. It was a winter’s evening, on one of my returns home at the close of some Eastern campaign. I had been in the house but a few moments, and was warming myself before a blazing wood fire, seated between my mother and my aunt Clara. Suddenly something appeared on the scene, bounding like a panther, and then rolling itself wildly on the hearth rug like a live snowball on its crimson ground. Ah! said aunt Clara, you don’t know her; I will introduce her; this is our new inmate, Pussy White! We thought we would have another cat, for a mouse had found our closet in the saloon below.

      The house had been catless for a long time; succeeding the mourning for a certain African cat that I had brought home from my first voyage and worshiped for two years, but who one fine morning, after a short illness, breathed out her little foreign soul, giving me her last conscious glance, and whom I had afterward buried beneath a

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