Classic Book Enthusiasts Gifts

Hotelier calls for the Hunchback of Notre Dame: 'Bell Boy!'

General and Hippie read WAR AND PEACE.

War & Peace as it was and written and as it would have been written if Tolstoy had invested in a good word processor.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honoré de Balzac

Papageno from The Magic Flute

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

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

Sock Puppet in Literature

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

'E-books?'

Lend me your ears

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

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

'Love me little, love me long.'

Dorothy, the lion, and the scarecrow, are suddenly confronted by the tin man of Oz.

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

Changes at home

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

'Romeo and Julietta'

Marley had a little lamb

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 'Tickets Please!'

A.M Gorky

"Tell us again about the humpback of Notre dame."

Mark Twain and Charles Dickens make a joint appearance on the lecture circuit

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

Plagiarism by Billy Widmore It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Four score and seven years ago, Quoted the raven nevermore...

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

Charles Dickens

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Death comes to both the Archbishop and the Salesman in Venice