Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a book of poems about cats. The cats in these poems act like humans. It is by T. S. Eliot. It was first sold in 1939. Andrew Lloyd Webber used most of the poems in his musical Cats.

Contents of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot:
 The Naming of Cats
 The Old Gumbie Cat
 Growltiger’s Last Stand
 The Rum Tum Tugger
 Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
 Old Deuteronomy
 The Pekes and the Pollicles
 Mr. Mistoffelees
 Macavity: The Mystery Cat
 Gus: The Theatre Cat
 Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town
 Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
 The Ad-dressing of Cats
 Cat Morgan Introduces Himself (added in the 1962 edition and not included in the musical)

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 

Category:1939 books
Category:20th-century British poems