Historical Fiction Appreciator Mugs

Mr Pinch is Amazed by a Sudden Apparition

'He likes to power nap.'

Daughters on the beach

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

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

Modern Major General

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

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

"Shall I let them breathe."

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

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

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

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

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

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

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Miggs's short-lived joy

Nanki Poo

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

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

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

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

The Meeting