Nostalgic For Classic Literature Gifts

Paul goes home for the holidays

Bertie Wooster type teaching a parrot to talk

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

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Papageno from The Magic Flute

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

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Out To Lurch

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

Men: Hating chick flicks since 1623.

Don Quixote is Caged (Don Quixote).

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

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

Multi-Generational Books

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Solar Frankenstein

'Hello, I'm Dr. Frank Stein and this is my anaesthetist, Dr. Ivan Gore. We'll be doing your hernia operation tomorrow.'

To read or not to read?

Two Generations of Readers

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

Treasure Island Book.

Letter Collecting Nerd

"We could have been here sooner, but we wanted to wait until the beautiful Yellow Brick Road was built."

Lend me your ears

'I'm the ghost of Christmas future. I'm hammered, can we do this later...?'

Lord George brings news of the debate

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Tower Hamlets

Dorothy and Toto

Changes at home

"Are you looking for metric or imperial sized neck bolts?"

Humanities 101. I hear you're reading Greek plays in there. Yeah, it's a real Medea blitz!

William Faulkner