19th-century Fiction Pillows

The lonely figure

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Audio Books

The Elliot Ness monster.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

Thomas Hardy

"After grad school, and before joining Wall Street, I decided to travel a bit."

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

Don Quixote

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

"What'd you think the zipper on my face was for?"

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

The Portrait of Dorian Gray after one year in lockdown.

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

"Here’s a book with a pretty peacock on the cover. Let’s try this Flannery O’Connor story before bed."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"You're incredibly tight."

"I'm sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading. I'll have to ask you to come with me."

"He's Right Behind Me, Isn't He?"

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

John Stuart Mill

Charles Dickens.

"More please."