Historical Novel Reader Pillows

Trilby - 'A-smokin' their poipes and cigyars'.

John Bunyan

Daughters on the beach

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

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

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

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

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

Pirates: "To absent Limbs."

Redlaw and the Phantom

"If we're musketeers, why can't we just shoot people? with muskets?"

'Bront?saurus.'

Mad Hatter's tea party.

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

Franz Kafka

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

Miggs's short-lived joy

Jane Austen

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

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

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

"Javert" Would Like To Use Your Current Location

"I dropped my goblet!"

Tess of the Dirigibles

A new meaning in the Roman

"It's Shakespeare, Mother - please do't keep moaning 'Oh get on with it'!"

"Phew! - You've got bat breath."

Miss Jellyby

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

'What are you staring at? . . . Please save me from the English majors.'

Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth increase.