Classic Books Enthusiast Mugs

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

Honoré de Balzac

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

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).

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.'

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

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

To read or not to read?

Lend me your ears

'E-books?'

Treasure Island Book.

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

Tower Hamlets

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

"A haand gel...!?"

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

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

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

Changes at home

Dorothy and Toto