Russian Literature Scholar Mugs

Ivan Turgenev

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

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

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

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Hamlet'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Shakespeare was bisexual

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

The Demise of Tinkerbell

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Don Quixote

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

Schrodinger's Black Box

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

Iris Murdoch

Gunter Grass

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”