Historical Fiction Lovers Pillows

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

Illustration for 'Wives and Daughters', scene 3.

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

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

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

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

Ten Commandments

"Shall I let them breathe."

Next in Lion

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

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

Redlaw and the Phantom

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

"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

Miggs's short-lived joy

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'