Romantic Literature Aficionado Gifts

Mr. Haredale interupts the lovers

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Bear Costume

"I feel we haven't moved beyond parallel play."

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Gunter Grass

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

Stephen Spender.

"You can tell it's a period drama because they're not wearing ozone helmets."

Noel Coward.

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

My Literary Influences

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

Ironing Punctuation

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

"The finger bowl is courtesy of the gentleman."

Romantic Tree Carving

Library

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

The evidence destroyed

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

Ivan Turgenev

First case of obsessive compulsive disorder: Lady Macbeth

"We didn't spend much time together when we first got married, so we're making up for lost time. We now have a date night 300 days a year."

"Red wine with fish? Sometimes you really are a monster."

"Don Wood? I don't know any Don Wood!"

Lord Byron

Samuel Beckett