Reading Historical Novels Mugs

"If you can't beat them, sir, perhaps you should consider colluding with them."

Daughters on the beach

John Bunyan

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

The Elliot Ness monster.

Modern Major General

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

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

Gunter Grass

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

"After grad school, and before joining Wall Street, I decided to travel a bit."

Don Quixote

"Shall I let them breathe."

Redlaw and the Phantom

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

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

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

Franz Kafka

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.

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

"I have to pee!"

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

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

Miggs's short-lived joy

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

I hope that "golden showers" dossier about Trump is true. That'd be awesome. How so, little buddy? Well, I was always a big fan of the cold war. I loved "Red Dawn" and "War Games" and "James Bond" and all those really cool cold war movies. If it's true that our new president is actually being blackmailed by the Russians, we might finally have a real "Manchurian Candidate." I've calculated that the number of "Twilight Zone" episodes that might still come true has just grown by half a dozen. I hop

'Oh dear, Hamlet seems to have developed turrets syndrome.'

Tess of the Dirigibles

Miss Jellyby