by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), as Mark Twain
Language: English
Our translations: FRE
The rats were devouring the house, but instead of examining the cat's teeth and the cat's claws, they only concerned themselves to find out if it was a holy cat, a pious cat, a moral cat...
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Composition:
- Set to music by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), no title, 1986 [ mezzo-soprano or soprano and piano ], from stage composition Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine, no. 8, confirmed with composer's website
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), as Mark Twain, appears in Recollections of Joan of Arc
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-02-16
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Word count: 36