Historical Fiction Fans Mugs

Robinson Crusoe on the phone - "Big job. No problem, it'll be done by Friday."

Rape of the Lock- The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles

"The Three Wise Men followed a star...wasn't their GPS working?"

Newman Noggs leaves the ladies in the empty house

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Topsy Taking Liberties with Miss Ophelia's Wardrobe

"Before it's too late, Dad, I want to take the opportunity to say 'I love you.'"

Abbott and Costello meet Leo Tolstoy.

What is it about BBC One's reboot of Poldark which attracts so many viewers?"

'Wild Bill Hiccup: Would-be scourge of the Wild West...'

"It's a novel about when Leonardo da Vinci proposed to Oprah Winfrey."

Sherwood forest. Private. Keep out.

The locksmith dressing for parade

Location, location, location

Missing and dreaming

A chance meeting

A gracious invitation

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

"At least they're no longer talking about the pandemic."

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

Victor Hugo

Daughters on the beach

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

Gunter Grass

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

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

Next in Lion

"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...

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?"

Gulliver's other travels.