Classic Literature Magnets

Reflecting the world around them, fourteen writers offer different styles of unforgettable storytelling and inspiring non-fiction prose, these are the opening passages of fourteen classic works of literature. They range from Homer's The Iliad, The Art of War to Lincoln's “The Gettysburg Address” to the famous lines from Dickens' A tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times..."

It's lit. typewriter text over a pile of books illustration

Scraperboard (scratchboard) illustration of a scene from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Celebrate famous women writers of classic literature in this bookish Austen & Woolf & Eliot & Bronte tee ;)

abridged classics

abridged classics (composite)

Write the stories that reshape the world!! Mythopoetics is the art of changing the world through literature (coined by acclaimed poet Gary Snyder).

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

(even more) abridged classics

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

An Anne of Green Gables bookish is the perfect gift idea for Anne with an e lovers, book nerds, bookworms, literature teachers, librarians, readers, and writers.

Book inspired art for the literature and books lover or English teacher. Wuthering Hights by Emily Bronte. Romantic line art drawing of a girl with chandelier and a pun on the title of her novel, Wuthering Lights.

If you had to distill pride and prejudice into one picture...

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

He’s haughty, reserved, fastidious, he’s every girl’s dream man. Our puntastic Jane Austen design.

Francis Cugat's famous and controversial artwork for the first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby". Fantastic as wall art and many other products.

Carrie

A gray map of early Britain and France shows Agincourt and London and the image of a tiger. With selected quotes from Henry as he addresses his men as a "band of brothers.".

Part of my supermarket coaster series spoofing Penguin classic books and plays. Oscar Wilde was sending up the staid etiquette of nineteenth century Britain; I am satirising that a stripped down Aldi store is far from elegant refinement - no butler here - and that's how I like it!

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading. Right now she's enjoying TS Eliot and looking forward to the new Cats movie!

The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet is probably Shakespeare's most famous single scene. Here it is with a cute couple painted over the text.

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Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Humpty Dumpty delivers his message in this vintage John Tenniel illustration from Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass.

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Always. Literally always, even if I just finished watching it.

Freedom is when Chief Bromden escapes from Oregon psychiatric hospital.