Historical Fiction Appreciator Mugs

Mr Pinch is Amazed by a Sudden Apparition

Victor Hugo

'He likes to power nap.'

Daughters on the beach

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

"What the...They wrapped me in toilet paper!"

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Gunter Grass

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Dead Cat Crown Jewels

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

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

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

"Shall I let them breathe."

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

Next in Lion

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

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

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

Redlaw and the Phantom

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

Franz Kafka

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

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

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

Nanki Poo

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

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

Miggs's short-lived joy

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

Forensic evidence now proves that the shots in the balcony weren't meant for the President, but rather the show's cast.

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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