Russian Literature Gifts

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration: "'War and Punishment'...it''ll make us a fortune."

'I always cry at the ending.'

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

'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.'

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

First Novels.

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Do me next."

"Meet the author"

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Tut and Carmen.

The Bookworm

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."