Classic Novel Curator Mugs

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

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

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

"We need volunteers for the car chasing fundraiser."

'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."

Lend me your ears

You had me at vintage.

The Philip Marlow family

'The pile of unread books by the bed looks bigger than the futon...'

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

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

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

'Love me little, love me long.'

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

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

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

Redlaw and the Phantom

A.M Gorky

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!"

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Death comes to both the Archbishop and the Salesman in Venice

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

William Makepeace Thackeray.

"I've sewn on 2 right hands, and have made you ambidextrous!"

"You'll never believe who's here."

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

Alice in Wonderland - Alice Meets the Cheshire Cat.

"Have ye seen a whale that matches this swatch?"