Studying Historical Novels Gifts

During the Tempest, Panurge's Courage has Deserted Him. Friar Jean Mocks Him (Rabelais).

Daughters on the beach

John Bunyan

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

The Elliot Ness monster.

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

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

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

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

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

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

The Philip Marlow family

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

Don Quixote

Redlaw and the Phantom

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

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

Franz Kafka

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

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

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

Forensic evidence now proves that the shots in the balcony weren't meant for the President, but rather the show's cast.

Miggs's short-lived joy

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"I have to pee!"

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

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

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

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

Tess of the Dirigibles

Tiny Tim, who did not die, grows up to marry Little Nell, who did not die, either.

Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth increase.

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that oppertunity