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Jeoffry - The Poet's Cat (Hardcover) Loot Price: R445
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Jeoffry - The Poet's Cat (Hardcover): Oliver Soden

Jeoffry - The Poet's Cat (Hardcover)

Oliver Soden

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Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

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Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Oliver Soden
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9567-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Cats
Books > Biography > Literary
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LSN: 0-7509-9567-X
Barcode: 9780750995672

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