Literary Classics Lover Gifts

"Now take your time, Captain Ahab, and tell the jury if you see that whale in the court room today..."

"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.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

Victor Hugo

Tut and Carmen.

'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.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Jean-Paul Sartre

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

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

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

Out To Lurch

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

Distractions Of The Great

"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson--I took him walkies!"

The Demise of Tinkerbell

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

The Little Search Engine Who Could: 'I think I can...I think I can...'

Joan Hickson

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Iliadette.

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

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

Iris Murdoch