Classical Stories Gifts

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

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

Papageno from The Magic Flute

'He likes to power nap.'

Out To Lurch

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

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

Joan Hickson

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

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

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

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

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

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

Sundial Time

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

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

',,, and if anyone knows of a reason why these two should not be married, let them storm this castle with pitchforks and torches or forever hold their peace,'

'I don't care what the blueprints say, I'm certain HE strongly suggested a roof.'

Thomas Hardy

Knights of the bedside table.

Shakespeare's Lost Play: The Taming of the Pooch.

After the Sentence

Moby Dick

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

'Ignore it! It's just some of the local kids trying to get in for free.'

',,,And we'd really like a heart for the Tin Man,,,'

Lovers' leap with chaperone observation point.

Lady Macbeth

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

Coronavirus Windmills

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

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

Et in Arcadia Ego

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.