Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

CD-Audio

Main Details

Title Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Authors and Contributors      By (author) T. S. Eliot
Read by Sir John Gielgud
Read by Irene Worth
Physical Properties
Format:CD-Audio
Dimensions(mm): Height 125,Width 142
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780007202621
ClassificationsDewey:821.912
Audience
General
Edition Unabridged edition

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication Date 21 March 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The basis for the musical phenomenon 'Cats', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes -- the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic -- make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.

Author Biography

T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965) recast 20th century English poetry with a whole new vocabulary of technique, giving voice to a bold, vibrantly original Modernist style. In addition to his poetry, his body of work includes many landmark critical essays, as well as plays such as The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965) recast 20th century English poetry with a whole new vocabulary of technique, giving voice to a bold, vibrantly original Modernist style. In addition to his poetry, his body of work includes many landmark critical essays, as well as plays such as The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.