Historical Fiction Reader Gifts

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Nicholas congratulates Arthur Gride on his wedding morning

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

Redlaw and the Phantom

"I could not believe it, there he was, attacking me: I thought knights were supposed to protect ladies..."

Forensic evidence now proves that the shots in the balcony weren't meant for the President, but rather the show's cast.

'I called Louis XVI and Robespierre answered!'

'Are there no workhouses? Are there no benefit fraud hotlines?'

Victor Hugo

Daughters on the beach

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

"Hey, it's not all fire and brimstone anymore—one of our nine circles is even smoke-free."

The Elliot Ness monster.

Modern Major General

Gunter Grass

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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!"

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

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

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

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

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

Next in Lion

"Shall I let them breathe."

Pirates: "To absent Limbs."

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?"

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

"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