Historic Fiction Fan Gifts

Little Dorrit - The Pensioner Entertainment

Illustration for 'Eleanor's Victory' by Miss Braddon, scene 3.

Victor Hugo

Daughters on the beach

Modern Major General

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Gunter Grass

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Trilby - Finis

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

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

Next in Lion

"Shall I let them breathe."

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

Gulliver's other travels.

'Don't worry it's organic...'

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

"Say! While I'm off in the Holy Land, why don't you find a little crusade of some kind that interests you?"

"If we're musketeers, why can't we just shoot people? with muskets?"

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

Franz Kafka

"Oh goody! It's just like the Columbian Exposition of 1893."

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

I hope that "golden showers" dossier about Trump is true. That'd be awesome. How so, little buddy? Well, I was always a big fan of the cold war. I loved "Red Dawn" and "War Games" and "James Bond" and all those really cool cold war movies. If it's true that our new president is actually being blackmailed by the Russians, we might finally have a real "Manchurian Candidate." I've calculated that the number of "Twilight Zone" episodes that might still come true has just grown by half a dozen. I hop

Miggs's short-lived joy

Maypole

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

"Or...we could suggest a three-way."

"Lord, save my ass from this Russia debacle, please!"

Professor Ernie's history of philosophy. Rene Descartes had a difficult childhood. I think, therefore I am! I know you are, but what am I?!

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'