Classic Literature Anniversary Gifts

Some people thought she'd taken the whole Dickens thing a bit far...

"You're going to hate yourself."

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Tut and Carmen.

Victor Hugo

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

'He likes to power nap.'

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson--I took him walkies!"

The Little Search Engine Who Could: 'I think I can...I think I can...'

The Demise of Tinkerbell

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

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

Out To Lurch

Joan Hickson

Emotion of Mr. Kenwigs on hearing the family news from Nicholas

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Sundial Time

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

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

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

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

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

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

Don Quixote is Caged (Don Quixote).

Multi-Generational Books

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

Scarpia from Tosca