A delightful manual which instructs stray kittens and homeless cats in how to obtain, captivate, and dominate the families of their choice. 200 black-and-white photographs.

A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teaches the chick to fly.

In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and ’60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits ...

Hens, dinosaurs, an astronaut and a white rabbit all play their part in this magical story in which the encounter between Earth-boy and alien opens up the wonders of the universe.Tender and enchanting as The Little Prince and with the same ...

Bukowski considered cats to be unique forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love. On Cats offers Bukowski's musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency.

... che ho istantaneamente giudicato antipatico. Questo tizio ha subito cominciato a manipolarmi, a tastarmi tutto il corpo, a dirmi che ero un bel gattone. «Ehi – gli ho ruggito – lo sapevo già, non c'era bisogno che venissi qui per ...

... che hanno le api di segna- lare alle loro compagne la posizione di fiori specifici danzando . I compli- cati schemi delle loro danze sono ... miagolii della gatta poiché so di avere finito il latte . Se la gatta fosse in grado in qualche ...

... che sono cambiato e ho fatto tutto questo e sono andato e venuto e mi sono lamentato e ho sofferto e ho gioito e ho ... miagolii schioccanti che dicono " Ehi ! Ehilà terra ! " - gli abomini di pietra affilata che Hozomeen ha creato ...

In The Skin, Curzio Malaparte extends the great fresco of European society he began in Kaputt.

19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. newspapers in London and Paris.