Collecting Classic Books Gifts

Oliver introduced to the respectable old gentleman

White Whale Brand Grog

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 'Tickets Please!'

Alice Through the Looking Glass - The Walrus and Carpenter.

The legal gentleman named brass

Hugh accosts Dolly Varden

Changes at home

Somebody turns up

Mr. and Mrs. Flintwinch

During the Tempest, Panurge's Courage has Deserted Him. Friar Jean Mocks Him (Rabelais).

Charles Baudelaire.

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Victor Hugo

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

J. R. R. Tolkien

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Rare Books

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.