Historical Novel Fan Gifts

First appearance of Mr. Samuel Weller

A visit from the ghost of Christmas parties.

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

Daughters on the beach

Modern Major General

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Gunter Grass

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

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

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

Next in Lion

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

Gulliver's other travels.

"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?"

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

Franz Kafka

"Or...we could suggest a three-way."

Miggs's short-lived joy

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

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

"Call me Ishmael."

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

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

"You don't think this could be construed as ironic do you?"

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

The Meeting

War and Peace GIF

Honore de Balzac

D. H. Lawrence

Teenage Shakespeare

Kit makes an appointment