Vintage Literature Aficionado Gifts

'The sad case of the bus pass of Dorian Gray.'

Papageno from The Magic Flute

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'Plimbco Bank &Trust, Old Money Division.'

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

'Hello, I'm Dr. Frank Stein and this is my anaesthetist, Dr. Ivan Gore. We'll be doing your hernia operation tomorrow.'

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

'Man...You age great!'

You had me at vintage.

Lend me your ears

Antiques

A burgandy from when the dow hit a record high.

The opera - 'Please, sir, give us your ticket, if you ain;t a-goin' in again.'

Victorian Fast Food - 'I'll have the lark pie festooned with eels, a full stilton, two bottles of port,,,'

The Epsom Derby - The Finishing Line

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

'Love me little, love me long.'

Jorge Luis Borges

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

The evidence destroyed

'Who are you kidding? This is a wind-up isn't it!'

Old West Bounty Hunter.

Ivan Turgenev

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

Plagiarism by Billy Widmore It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Four score and seven years ago, Quoted the raven nevermore...

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

First case of obsessive compulsive disorder: Lady Macbeth

Punk rocker passing punk codger in street.

William Makepeace Thackeray.

Death comes to both the Archbishop and the Salesman in Venice

"Wow!"