Classical Stories Pillows

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

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

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

Joan Hickson

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

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.'

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

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

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

',,, 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,'

Sundial Time

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

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Moby Dick

Knights of the bedside table.

After the Sentence

"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.'

Lovers' leap with chaperone observation point.

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

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

Lady Macbeth

"If she thinks I'm just gonna come running on home, wagging my tail behind me..."

Coronavirus Windmills

Et in Arcadia Ego

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