Classic Books Enthusiast Gifts

Milly and the Student

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Honoré de Balzac

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

Out To Lurch

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

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Don Quixote is Caged (Don Quixote).

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

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

Sock Puppet in Literature

Solar Frankenstein

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

"We could have been here sooner, but we wanted to wait until the beautiful Yellow Brick Road was built."

Treasure Island Book.

'E-books?'

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

To read or not to read?

'I'm the ghost of Christmas future. I'm hammered, can we do this later...?'

Lend me your ears

Tower Hamlets

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

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

William Faulkner

"Are you looking for metric or imperial sized neck bolts?"

Humanities 101. I hear you're reading Greek plays in there. Yeah, it's a real Medea blitz!

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

Changes at home

'Love me little, love me long.'

Dorothy and Toto