Historic Novels Gifts

Don Quixote

Edgar Allen Poe

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

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

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

Daughters on the beach

John Bunyan

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

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

The Elliot Ness monster.

Modern Major General

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

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

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

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

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

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

Thomas Hardy

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

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

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"After grad school, and before joining Wall Street, I decided to travel a bit."

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

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

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

Redlaw and the Phantom

"Don't be a sentimental fool, Harker!"

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

The lonely figure

"What'd you think the zipper on my face was for?"

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

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

Franz Kafka

Bram Stoker