Classic Literature Geek Gifts

Plato and Socrates, the Vaudeville Years

"You're going to hate yourself."

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

Victor Hugo

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

Tut and Carmen.

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

"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

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

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Honoré de Balzac

"You do realize I'm going to have to bill you for ten?"

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

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

'I used to commute. Now I transform.'

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

The Demise of Tinkerbell

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

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

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

Iliadette.

Scarpia from Tosca

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

Robocop and Juliet.

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

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

'Well, now we know why Dracula's been getting all the girls lately.'

Don Quixote is Caged (Don Quixote).

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

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

Multi-Generational Books

Stephen Spender.

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"