Historical Book Fanatic Pillows

"Just thought I'd let you know that the stars are in the exact same configuration as when Mary Shelley wrote 'Frankenstein'."

Victor Hugo

The International and May Day Terrorism

Daughters on the beach

Cut!

Modern Major General

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Gunter Grass

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

Next in Lion

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

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

Swells - Men's Fashion

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

"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?"

This castle manager job better be for real.

"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

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

'The Fashionable Mamma, or The Convenience of Modern Dress'

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

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

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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

The Meeting

Saint Patrick

Honore de Balzac