Belles-Lettres

Description: From the "Biographical Edition" of Dickens's works (1903), illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (a.k.a. "Phiz").

Description: From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1894), p. 15.

Description: One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. From "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Text from the 13th ed. (Methuen & Co, 1919).

Description: On Wednesdays, we wear our smoking jackets. Mashup of "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde (1895) and "Mean Girls," written by Tina Fey (2004).

Description: Title page from "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck (The Viking Press, 1952).

Description: Title page from "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck (The Viking Press, 1952).

Description: From "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: An Ode" by John Milton (Century Association, 1901), stanza 25.

Description: From "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: An Ode" by John Milton (Century Association, 1901), stanza 25.

Description: From the title page of "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Fred Whishaw (Thomas Crowell, 1886).

Description: From the title page of "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Fred Whishaw (Thomas Crowell, 1886).

Description: From "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, illus. by Ernest H. Shepard (Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931).