Novel Buffs Gifts

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

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

German Expressionist Breakfast

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

John Bunyan

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Audio Books

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Getting to Know You

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Moby Dick

Myths and legends...

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

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

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Fifty shades of Leveson.

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

Shakespeare Street

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

"I think I see your deadline approaching."

'It was a dark and stormy night. Also, there was a Catch-22.'

"Your membership entitles you to 15 books,45 posters,200 leaflets and umpteen stickers!"