English Literature Professors Gifts

"It's about a whale called Moby Richard."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"You're going to hate yourself."

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Hamlet'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

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

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

The Demise of Tinkerbell

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Don Quixote

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

Gunter Grass