Historical Fiction Authors Gifts

I think in order to be historically accurate you're meant to remove the quill from the bird BEFORE you start trying to write with it!

Occu-Pie Mars

They're Not Just That Into It

Victor Hugo

Vote Centrist to Keep Things Exactly as Awful as They Are

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

Daughters on the beach

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

The Elliot Ness monster.

Modern Major General

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Gunter Grass

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!"

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

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

Inside One's Memory Bank

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

"You think two weeks in isolation is hard?"

Castle, Cafe + Gift Shop.

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

The Evolution Of Man.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Next in Lion

The Wright brothers discover the first nightmare flight

This Is What Moral Corruption Looks Like

Don Quixote

"De l'huile bouillante, pas du fromage fondu!"

The Great Leap Forward

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

"Shall I let them breathe."

"I've edited your Wikipedia entry again, Sadie. You're about to be inundated with phone calls from the press." "Whatever, geek-boy." "You're now the world's foremost authority on Turkey leprosy, the disease that's threatening to ruin the holidays." "No one'll believe that." "Oh yeah? I wrote a Wikipedia page for Turkey leprosy, too, along with examples of all the historical figures it's killed, such as the Archduke of Crushistan." "There is no 'Crushistan.'" "I've written a Wikipedia entry for C

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