The perfect gift for literary types, this novelty book features 35 caricatures of famous authors - Shakespeare, Dickens, Poe, and others - each accompanied by three costumes offering droll references to characters from their most popular works. Imagine Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dressed up as Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie playing Miss Marple, and Charles Dickens himself as Marley's ghost! This unique collection features 35 paper dolls of famous authors, each with costumes depicting characters from their best-known works - plus a few surprises. Includes the following authors and more: Agatha Christie Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Brothers Grimm Bronte Sisters Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Ernest Hemingway Edgar Allan Poe Fyodor Dostoyevsky Franz Kafka F. Scott Fitzgerald Geoffrey Chaucer George Orwell H. G. Wells Herman Melville Jane Austen Jack London J. R. R. Tolkein Jules Verne Lewis Carroll L. Frank Baum Leo Tolstoy Mary Shelley Oscar Wilde Rudyard Kipling Virginia Woolf William Shakespeare