Historical Novel Lover Mugs

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."

Distractions Of The Great

John Bunyan

Daughters on the beach

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

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

Modern Major General

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

The intellectual.

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

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Iris Murdoch

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

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."

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

Of Mice and Men.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Litterary Dogs.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Lord Byron