Historical Fiction Fanatic Pillows

Mr. Mantalini poisons himself for the seventh time

War and Peace GIF

A stranger calls to see me

The Accomplices

Four Horsemen.

'Eeewwww... Can't I swear on a good work of historical fiction, like 'The Grapes of Wrath, or Doctor Zhivago?''

Jane Austen.

The Man in the Iron Basque!

Teenage Shakespeare

"Do you know why I summoned you?"

Television Readers.

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Daughters on the beach

Characters jumping out of a book.

Modern Major General

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

'Sue didn't watch soap operas all the time. She also reads books'

"Shall I let them breathe."

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

Addicted to reading

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

Next in Lion

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

"Barnes is morphing into some kind of strange creature. I warned him about eating out of the vending machines."

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

Fellow Sheep of the Ring

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

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

Gulliver's other travels.

'You sloth and gluttony guys have it easy -- I'm here for envy!'

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'