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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is a two-volume German novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann, published in 1819 and 1821. The work satirically interleaves the supposed autobiography of a literate cat, Murr, with the biography of the composer Johannes Kreisler, whose papers the cat claims to have used...
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Hoffmann's metafictional masterpiece is acclaimed for comic invention and Romantic irony; fragmented, unfinished construction makes it demanding and occasionally disorienting.
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The History of Pompey the Little is a satirical novel by Francis Coventry, first published in 1751. Its protagonist is a lapdog whose movement between owners gives the narrative a sequence of changing households, allowing the book to observe manners, status, fashion, and human behavior in eighteenth...
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Influential early animal narrative praised for witty social observation and fashionable satire; slight characterization and episodic novelty restrict lasting stature.
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