Historical Fiction Lovers Gifts

'Remember, my dear, it's just a starter castle.'

Illustration for 'Wives and Daughters', scene 3.

Victor Hugo

Daughters on the beach

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

John Bunyan

'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 . . . "

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

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

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

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

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

Ten Commandments

Next in Lion

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

"Shall I let them breathe."

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

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

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

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

Redlaw and the Phantom

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

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

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

Franz Kafka

Uncle Mort, you fought in Korea, right? You think that war will start up again? Not if I can help it. It was the morning of July 27, nineteen hundred and fifty-three. I was pinned down on Pork Chop Hill. My bazooka had run out of ammo. All I could find to load into it was a stuffed panda bear. I loaded it and fired that bear into the maw of the enemy. It struck one of them atop the noggin. Moments later, the armistice was signed. Every July 27th, I awaken at dawn and chuck that same panda at the

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

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