Literary T-Shirts From RedMolotov.com

Brought to you by RedMolotov T Shirts: cool t-shirts from the masters of sartorial subversion

Catalogue > Literary T-Shirts >

T-shirts about authors. T-Shirts about books. T-Shirts about great literary wits and wisdoms. Giants of the printed word - from Oscar Wilde to Peter Cook and from George Orwell to Douglas Adams - and t-shirt designs inspired by them.

View Page:
1 | 2
View All 58 Literary T-Shirts

1984 War Is Peace T-Shirt. War Is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The three slogans of the party, mantra of our Dear Leader Big Brother. Drink your Victory Gin, read your Prolefeed and never, ever question anything. From one of the finest pieces of literature ever; George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece 1984.
1984 "War Is Peace" T-Shirt
1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt. The classic opening lines to George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four: It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. In which Winston Smith questions the totalitarian system in which he lives. Big Brother is watching you.
1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt
40 is the Old Age of Youth... T-Shirt. 50 is the Youth of Old Age. OK, so we are all getting older. Grey hair, crows' feet, incessant aches and pains where once there were none. Perhaps you are even starting to grow your forehead? Whatever your situation, you can be guaranteed (well, sort of) to be cheered-up with these words of wisdom from the great Victor Hugo: forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age
40 is the Old Age of Youth... T-Shirt
42 T-Shirt. The ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything: 42. Just remember to pack your Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
42 T-Shirt
A Tale Of Two Cities Opening Lines T-Shirt. The famous opening lines from Charles Dickens' seminal novel on the French Revolution: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
A Tale Of Two Cities Opening Lines T-Shirt
Allen Ginsberg T-Shirt. The original leader and spokesperson of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg: radical, nonconformist, free-speech activist, gay rights campaigner and poet. His image on this t-shirt is overlaid with the classic opening lines to his 1956 poem Howl: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
Allen Ginsberg T-Shirt
Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening lines for Aldoux Huxley's dystopian vision of the future: A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability.
Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt
Charles Bukowski T-Shirt. Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski: laureate of American lowlife, author and poet (1920-1994).
Charles Bukowski T-Shirt
Charles Darwin Tree Of Life Sketch T-Shirt. Reproduced from a sketch from Charles Darwin's 1837 notebooks, this design shows Darwin's first known representation of what has since become known as the evolutionary Tree of Life. Above the diagram Darwin has written the words I think. In On The Origin of Species Darwin explained his theory thus: From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off; and these fallen branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no living representatives, and which are known to us only in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from, a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren, which in some small degree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from fatal competition by having inhabited a protected station. As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.
Charles Darwin Tree Of Life Sketch T-Shirt
Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt. Taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 Nihilist literary classic: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt
Darwin Is My Homeboy T-Shirt. The man who pioneered the theory of evolution and fundamentally changed the way in which we think about the world: Charles Darwin. Herewith bestowed an honour of which we are sure he would truly have been most proud: that of our homeboy.
Darwin Is My Homeboy T-Shirt
Das Kapital Opening Lines T-Shirt. The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. The opening lines to Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, the treatise on political economy that caused all that trouble in the first place.
Das Kapital Opening Lines T-Shirt
Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt. The opening to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote; the 17th Century novel that many feel marked the beginning of modern literature: At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt
Don't Believe The Lies T-Shirt. Media control: The Sun, The News of the World, The Daily Mail, The Express, The Mirror, The Telegraph, The Guardian, ad bloody infinitum. Lies, lies, lies. Don't swallow anyone else's agenda and the myth of a free press when it is completely controlled by vested interests.
Don't Believe The Lies T-Shirt
Don't Panic T-Shirt. ...first, it was slightly cheaper, and second, it had the words 'Don't Panic' emblazoned in large, friendly letters on its front... The famous cover text of the Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy in traditional Vogon yellow.
Don't Panic T-Shirt
Dorian Gray T-Shirt. The opening lines of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, telling the story of a young man obsessed with his own image whose own features remain unscathed despite his descent into hedonism. Instead the portrait of him painted by Basil Hallward ages. This t-shirt design features the preface added after the original edition published in the periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. In it Wilde espouses his thoughts on the role and value of art and the artist.
Dorian Gray T-Shirt
Dorothy Parker T-Shirt. Purveyor of one of the most caustic wits in living memory, Dorothy Parker was a writer, poet and broadcaster. Blacklisted as a communist, honoured for her civil rights work, this t-shirt design features her riposte to her editor when he contacted her on honeymoon about some unfinished work: I've been too fucking busy. Or vice versa.
Dorothy Parker T-Shirt
Dorothy Parker T-Shirt. Purveyor of one of the most caustic wits in living memory, Dorothy Parker was a writer, poet and broadcaster. Blacklisted as a communist, honoured for her civil rights work, this t-shirt design features her riposte to her editor when he contacted her on honeymoon about some unfinished work: I've been too fucking busy. Or vice versa.
Dorothy Parker T-Shirt
Doubleplusungood T-Shirt. times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling. The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in The Times of December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-existent persons. Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.
Doubleplusungood T-Shirt
Et Tu Brute T-Shirt. Shakespeare's take on Caesar's ultimate betrayal. You too, Brutus? Choose white or black print either on the front or, for extra poignancy, the back.
Et Tu Brute T-Shirt
Ford, You're Turning Into A Penguin. Stop It. T-Shirt. The effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive from the Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy on Ford Prefect.
Ford, You're Turning Into A Penguin. Stop It. T-Shirt
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad T-Shirt. Propaganda straight from the pages of Animal Farm, this slogan was the mantra of the animals on George Orwell's Manor Farm. Features a pig in full combat dress carrying a rifle (and, ironically, stood on two legs).
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad T-Shirt
George Orwell T-Shirt. George Orwell, a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. Author of some of the finest books of the 20th Century including Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalunia, The Road to Wigan Pier and, of course, his classic defence of English cooking.
George Orwell T-Shirt
George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt. One of the greatest authors in British history, George Orwell a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. A hero of anyone struggling against tyranny, his philosophies on civil liberties, human rights and authority can be summed up nicely by the quote on this t-shirt design: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt
George Orwell Power Quote T-Shirt. George Orwell voices his mistrust for those who seek to engage in revolutionary activities in order to establish a position of authority: Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell Power Quote T-Shirt
Gimli: Certainty of Death Quote T-Shirt. Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?. The Lord of the Rings' favourite dwarf in philosophical mood.
Gimli: Certainty of Death Quote T-Shirt
Gonzo Fist T-Shirt. Based on a design used by the Hunter S Thompson's campaign to be elected Sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The two thumbed, clenched fist is depicted clutching a Peyote bud and includes the slogan buy the ticket, take the ride in homage to Thompson's Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas.
Gonzo Fist T-Shirt
Hitch-Hikers' Guide In The Beginning T-Shirt. The opening lines to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, part one of the five-part Hitch Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy trilogy; probably the greatest pan-galactic epic ever written. In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has widely been regarded as a bad move
Hitch-Hikers' Guide "In The Beginning" T-Shirt
Hunter S Thompson: Andy Warhol Style T-Shirt. Hunter S Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and king of Gonzo journalism in the style of Andy Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe print.
Hunter S Thompson: Andy Warhol Style T-Shirt
Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt. Gonzo's premier exponent and gun-toting psychedelic genius, Hunter S Thompson, with his views on narcotics, firearms and mental instability: I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt

View Page:
1 | 2
View All 58 Literary T-Shirts