Of Cats and Elfins - Short Tales and Fantasies

In this new selection of Warner's fantasy short fiction, a companion to her Kingdoms of Elfin, the remaining four Elfin stories are gathered together with the remarkable forgotten tales of The Cat's Cradle Book (1940), eighty years after its first publication.

About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a great British 20th-century feminist modernist novelist, also a poet, a musicologist, and a Communist, and lived for most of her life in Dorset with her lover Valentine Ackland.

Summary

The 23 stories in Of Cats and Elfins encompass scholarship, black humour, the Gothic, and the anthropomorphic cats of The Cat's Cradle Book (1940), which enact Warner's preoccupation with the dark forces at large in Europe in the later 1930s. This is a major fantasy collection for a new generation of fantasy enthusiasts and Warner fans.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Assisted by: Greer Gilman (Introduction)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781912766154
• ISBN: 978-1-912766-15-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Handheld Classics; Sylvia and Valentine; Handheld Fantasy Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Fantasy, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Fantasy / Historical