Classic Book Aficionado Gifts

"Once you've read your favorite authors on a little illuminated screen, you can't go back."

"Herman Melville would have loved this."

Don Quixote

"Meet The Author"

Victor Hugo

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading my Critics

Honoré de Balzac

Papageno from The Magic Flute

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

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Don Quixote

Sock Puppet in Literature

Falstaff

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

'Hello, I'm Dr. Frank Stein and this is my anaesthetist, Dr. Ivan Gore. We'll be doing your hernia operation tomorrow.'

Lend me your ears

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

'E-books?'

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'Love me little, love me long.'

The opera - 'Please, sir, give us your ticket, if you ain;t a-goin' in again.'

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

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

Marley had a little lamb