I Am a Cat: Chapter I, Chapter II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609622183)

This English version of 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Sōseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916), and translated by Kan-ichi Ando (1878-1924), was published by Hattori Shoten, Tokyo, in 1906. It begins: "I am a cat; but as yet I have no name." Its sardonic feline narrator describes his origins, his settlement in the household of a Meiji teacher-intellectual, and the goings-on and conversations among the cats and humans about the neighborhood. Of the men he concludes: "They are miserable creatures in the eyes of a cat."

Author: Natsume Soseki
ISBN-10: 1609622189
ISBN-13: 9781609622183
Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2021
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.31d