The Cat Who Wished To Be A Man - Plot

Plot

Lionel, a housecat given the power of speech by the magician Stephanus, begs his master to turn him into a man. After many objections concerning the depravity of humans, Stephanus relents; and the transformed Lionel begins his adventures to town of Brightford. The mayor and his officers are plaguing Brightford with capricious rule and economic hardship. The mayor is especially covetous of the inn belonging to Gillian, with whom Lionel begins a rocky friendship. Lionel becomes entangled in the struggles of Brightford, and escalates the conflicts between the mayor and the people, while falling in love with Gillian as he becomes more and more human.

Works by Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Prydain
  • The Book of Three (1964)
  • The Black Cauldron (1965)
  • The Castle of Llyr (1966)
  • Taran Wanderer (1967)
  • The High King (1968)
  • The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain (1973)
  • Coll and His White Pig (1965 picture book)
  • The Truthful Harp (1967 picture book)
Westmark trilogy
  • Westmark (1981)
  • The Kestrel (1982)
  • The Beggar Queen (1984)
Vesper Holly series
  • The Illyrian Adventure (1986)
  • The El Dorado Adventure (1987)
  • The Drackenberg Adventure (1988)
  • The Jedera Adventure (1989)
  • The Philadelphia Adventure (1990)
  • The Xanadu Adventure (2005)
Other works for
children and young adults
  • My Five Tigers (1956)
  • August Bondi: Border Hawk (1958)
  • Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope (1960)
  • Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth (1963)
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970)
  • The King's Fountain (1971)
  • The Four Donkeys (1972)
  • The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man (1973)
  • The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
  • The Town Cats and Other Tales (1977)
  • The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (1978)
  • The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (1991)
  • The Fortune-Tellers (1992)
  • The Arkadians (1995)
  • The House Gobbaleen (1995)
  • The Iron Ring (1997)
  • Gypsy Rizka (1999)
  • How the Cat Swallowed Thunder (2000)
  • The Gawgon and the Boy (2001)
  • The Rope Trick (2002)
  • Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat (2005)
  • The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (2007)
Books for adults
  • And Let the Credit Go (1955)
  • Janine (my wife, that is) is French (1960)
  • My Love Affair with Music (1960)
  • Park Avenue Vet (Alexander & Louis J. Camuti, 1962)
  • Fifty Years in the Doghouse (1963)
Translations
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea (1949), The Wall (1951)
  • Paul Vialar: The Sea Rose (1951)
  • Paul Éluard: Uninterrupted Poetry (1951)


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