Historical Novel Lover Gifts

On the dark road

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Daughters on the beach

Distractions Of The Great

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

John Bunyan

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Modern Major General

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

The intellectual.

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

Iris Murdoch

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

Disraeli Stands for 'British Interests' Against Russian Expansionism

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

Of Mice and Men.

Lord Byron

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."