The Old Age of El Magnifico Year First Published: 2000 First Published by: Flamingo (HarperCollins) Category: Short Stories Non-Fiction This Edition: British first edition click on image for larger version

From the book cover: In her early, celebrated collection of stories, Particularly Cats & Rufus the Survivor, Doris Lessing gave us a brilliant evocation of feline existence. With her intensely visual imagination and cool, precise eye, Doris Lessing comes nearer than any other writer to understanding the elusive nature of cats. The Old Age of El Magnifico is a new tale about an awkwardly loveable cat, "an enormous lordly beast, a harlequinade of black and white', who in his later years, because of illness, must suffer the great indignity of becoming a three-legged cat. Unsentimental, unwhimsical, unmistakably Lessing, this story insinuates itself into the imagination with skill and grace. Also see: British Combined Edition: On Cats Included in the 2000 revised edition of Particularly Cats in the U.S. O T H E R . E D I T I O N S China Times Publishing Company Chinese softcover reprint Published 2002 ISBN: 957-13-3673-4 Illustrations by Gardiana.com Click Here for the illustrations for this book. Note: just click "cancel" to not install the Chinese font and you will be able to read the web site.