Classic Book Enthusiasts Mugs

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

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Honoré de Balzac

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?'

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

Lend me your ears

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

Changes at home

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

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

Jorge Luis Borges

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

'Romeo and Julietta'

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

'Love me little, love me long.'

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 'Tickets Please!'

A.M Gorky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

"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.'

"Personally, I'm getting sick of sequels."

William Makepeace Thackeray.