Historical Novel Reader Prints

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

Daughters on the beach

John Bunyan

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

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

Gunter Grass

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

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

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?"

Mad Hatter's tea party.

'Bront?saurus.'

Franz Kafka

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

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

Miggs's short-lived joy

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

"Javert" Would Like To Use Your Current Location

Jane Austen

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

"I dropped my goblet!"

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

Tess of the Dirigibles

A new meaning in the Roman

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

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

Books*. *Batteries not included.

Miss Jellyby

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