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The Master Cat; or 'Puss in Boots' and The History of Whittington | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
We present a double-bill of Lang Fairy Tales - both pretty cat-focused.
The Master Cat; or Puss in Boots introduces us to a frankly psychopathic, murderous, criminal mastermind of a feline, before The History of Whittington is much more about swapping cats for more valuable things, domestic violence, and the apparent honesty of English merchants.
If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by a married couple, folklorists and translators Nora and Andrew Lang, with most of the work done to compile them completed by Nora, also…
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