I’ll Give You a Quarter If I Can Bum a Tolstoy Novella

I WANT.

TankBooks is combining two extinguishing passions – cigarette design and printed books – to create these awesome (if dangerously twee) pocket-sized classic reads.

According to the publisher’s site, “We have launched a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs – the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.”

Titles include Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Ernest Hemingway’s The Undefeated and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony, Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Black Jack, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych and Father Sergius.

What about the ladies, though, huh? We’re thinking some sweet Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnetry – “Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended” – would fit right in. Or too on the nose?

Hat tip: NY Mag’s Vulture blog