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![]() Fictional Characters in Literature
The Big Sky, 1949
The Big Sky
The Wanderer, 1913; English translation, 1928
The Plague
The Fall
The Plague, 1947
The Stranger
The Stranger, 1942
Brave New World
Chrome Yellow, 1921
Brave New World
Point Counter Point
Brave New World
Point Counter Point, 1928
Point Counter Point
The Three Musketeers, first published in serial form in 1844
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Lady of the Camellias, 1848; made into Verdi's La Traviata in 1853
La Reine Margot, 1845
The Count of Monte Cristo
The First Circle
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward, 1968
Cancer Ward
Roots
Roots, 1976
The Color Purple, 1982
Cry, The Beloved Country, 1948
The Joy Luck Club, 1989
The Counterfeiters, 1925, English translation, 1927
The Counterfeiters
Man's Fate, 1933
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
One Hand Clapping
Earthly Powers, 1980
The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now, 1875
Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Night Flight, 1931
A Woman's Kingdom, short story
The Cherry Orchard, 1904
The Birds; satirical drama, first performed, 414 BCE
The Clouds; an elderly farmer
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902
Darkness at Noon, 1940
Death of a Salesman; drama, 1949
All My Sons -- 1947
The Crucible
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead, 1943
The Fountainhead
The Poisonwood Bible
Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer
The Lacuna
The Lacuna
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
The Tenants
The Assistant
The Natural
The Natural
The Tenants
The Fixer, 1966
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera; drama, 1928; English translation, 1949
The Threepenny Opera
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago, 1957
Dracula
Dracula
Dracula, 1897
The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962; English translation, 1964
The Member of the Wedding, 1946
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940
The Chosen, 1967
Autobiographical character in four novels
Cold Mountain
Thirteen Moons
Cold Mountain
Thirteen Moons
All Hallows Eve, 1945
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Herland
Herland; first published as serial, 1915; book, 1979
Herland
Arrow of God, 1964
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
A Man of the People, 1966
Things Fall Apart, 1958
Chéri, 1920
The Ripening Seed
The Vagabond
The Ripening Seed
No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridan, 1985
All the Pretty Horses
No Country for Old Men
The Happy Return in the Horatio Hornblower series
A Ship of the Line; seventh book in the series, 1938
In the Horatio Hornblower series
Out of the Silent Planet, 1938
The Screwtape Letters, 1942
Robinson Crusoe
1719 Robinson Crusoe
The Thin Man
The Thin Man, 1934
The Thin Man
The Maltese Falcon, 1930
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code
1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Sons and Lovers, 1913
Women in Love, 1920
Women in Love, 1920
The Rainbow, 1915
Women in Love
Nightwood, 1936
The Good Terrorist
The Golden Notebook
The Grass is Singing
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Masque of the Red Death; short story, 1842
1912 Tarzan of the Apes
Ethan Frome, 1911
The House of Mirth, 1905
The Age of Innocence, 1920
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac; drama, 1897
Cyrano de Bergerac
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; drama, 1962
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Billy Bathgate
Ragtime
Ragtime
Night, 1956
The Death of the Heart, 1938
A Passage to India, 1924
Howard's End, 1910
Wuthering Heights
1847 Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying
Farewell to Arms
Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Tobacco Road, 1932
God's Little Acre, 1933
The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter
Delta Wedding, 1946
A Worn Path; a short story
The Emperor Jones; drama, 1920
Mourning Becomes Electra; play cycle, first performed, 1931
Anna Christie; drama, 1923
Desire Under the Elms; drama, 1924
The Iceman Cometh; drama, 1946
Long Day's Journey Into Night; drama, 1956
Decline and Fall, 1928
Brideshead Revisited, 1945
Decline and Fall
The Violent Bear It Away
Wise Blood, 1952
The short story "Revelation" from the collection, Everything That Rises Must Converge
The Good Soldier, 1915
Thérèse, 1927
The Castle
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
The Castle, 1926
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night, 1934
The Great Gatsby
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov, 1880
Crime and Punishment
The Possessed, 1872
Of Love and Other Demons
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Of Love and Other Demons
The host, The Canterbury Tales, first transcribed, 1387-1400
Pygmalion
Pygmalion; a play, 1913
Man and Superman; drama, 1903
The Apple Cart, 1928
The Apple Cart
Arms and the Man; drama, 1898
Candida; drama, 1897
Silas Marner
Daniel Deronda, 1876
The Mill on the Floss
Daniel Deronda
Silas Marner, 1861
The Mill on the Floss
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
1984
Consuelo, 1843
Three Lives, 1909
Three Lives
Three Lives
Crabwalk
Cat and Mouse
The Tin Drum
Cat and Mouse, English translation, 1963
The Quiet American, 1955
The Honorary Consul
The Honorary Consul, 1973
The Heart of the Matter
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair
The Quiet American
Les Onze Mille Verges
Madame Bovary
Bel-Ami, English translation, 1889
A Woman's Life, 1883
1892 The Diary of a Nobody
The Caretaker; drama, 1960
The Birthday Party; drama, first performed, 1958
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Clown, first English translation, 1965
Group Portrait With Lady
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
Ghosts; drama, 1881
A Doll's House
Amelia, 1751
Tom Jones
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
The Golden Bowl, 1904
The Ambassadors, 1903
Daisy Miller; novella, 1878
The Awkward Age, 1899
The Portrait of a Lady, 1881
The Ambassadors
What Maisie Knew, 1897
The Wings of the Dove, 1902
The Bostonians, 1886
The Golden Bowl, 1904
Daisy Miller
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha
Demian
The Glass Bead Game
Demian
Demian
Siddhartha
Siddhartha
Beneath the Wheel
Steppenwolf
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game
Siddhartha and Journey to the East
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Youngblood Hawke, 1961
Marjorie Morningstar, 1955
The Caine Mutiny
The Winds of War, 1971
The Caine Mutiny, 1951
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Odyssey; first transcribed, 800 BCE; first English translation, 1616
Cousin Bette, 1846; English translation, 1888
Le Père Goriot
The title character in Cousin Bette
The Wild Ass's Skin, 1831; English translation, 1896
Various titles
The Boys from Brazil
I, Robot
Enemies: A Love Story
Satan in Goray
The House of the Spirits, 1982
The House of the Spirits, English translation, 1985
The House of the Spirits
Out of Africa
The Nonexistent Knight
The Baron in the Trees
The Cloven Viscount
The Cloven Viscount
A Month in the Country; drama, 1855
Torrents of Spring
Fathers and Sons, 1862
On the Road (Allen Ginsberg)
On the Road (Neil Cassidy)
Vanity of Duluoz
On the Road (Kerouac)
A dog; Call of the Wild, 1903
The Sea-Wolf, 1904
The Sea-Wolf
A Death in the Family, 1957
Go Tell It On the Mountain, 1953
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Studs Lonigan, 1935
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pioneers, 1832
The Last of the Mohicans
Called Deerslayer by the Delaware in The Deerslayer
Ulysses
Finnegan's Wake
Ulysses
Ulysses, 1922
Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
All Fall Down, 1960
Midnight Cowboy, 1965
Midnight Cowboy
The Bridges of Toko-Ri
Centennial
Sayonara
1939 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Fool's Crow
Sense and Sensibility, 1811
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
Emma, 1816
Mansfield Park, 1814
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
Mansfield Park
Franny and Zooey, 1955
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
Nausea
No Exit; drama, 1944
Being There
Being There
The Painted Bird, 1965
True North
Dalva
Disgrace
Dusklands
Play It As It Lays
The Last Thing He Wanted
A Book of Common Prayer
Democracy
Democracy, 1984
Play It As it Lays
Egmont; drama, 1788, English translation, 1837
Faust; first English translation, 1838
Faust
Faust
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
The Sot-Weed Factor
Giles Goat-Boy, 1966; character is also called Billy Bocksfuss
The Sot-Weed Factor
The End of the Road, 1958
The Floating Opera, 1957
1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps
Bullet Park, 1969
Wapshot Chronicle
The Swimmer, 1964
U.S.A., a three volume set first published together in 1938
The Collector, 1963
The Collector, 1963
The Magus, 1966
The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1969
October Light
The Sunlight Dialogues
Nickel Mountain
Grendel
October Light
The Sunlight Dialogues
The Sunlight Dialogues
Mickelsson's Ghosts
October Light
October Light
The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972
A Bell for Adano, 1944
A Bell for Adano
A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1974
Appointment in Samarra, 1934
East of Eden, 1952
East of Eden
The Winter of our Discontent
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Terrorist
The Poorhouse Fair
Rabbit Run and other Rabbit novels
Appears in several stories and novels
Terrorist
The Poorhouse Fair, 1959
Villages
Heart of Darkness, 1902
Heart of Darkness, 1902
Something Happened, 1974
Catch-22
Catch-22
Catch-22
Catch-22
Catch-22
Catch-22
Catch-22
Wonderland
Bellefleur, 1980
Wonderland, 1971
Them, 1969
The Gravedigger's Daughter, 2007
The Horse's Mouth, 1944
The Horse's Mouth, 1944
1955 The Ginger Man
The Hobbit and briefly in Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, English translation, 1873
The Awakening
The Awakening
The Awakening, 1899
The Story of An Hour, a short story
The Awakening
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Wind in the Willows, 1908
1954 Lucky Jim
Not Without Laughter; 1930
Lonesome Dove
The Evening Star and Terms of Endearment
Horseman, Pass By; inspiration for the film, Hud
The Last Picture Show
Lonesome Dove
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
1759 - 1769 in nine volume, The Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Livia, 1978
The Alexandria Quartet
Livia
The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet; Justine, 1957; Balthazar, 1958; Mountolive, 1958; Clea, 1960
The Alexandria Quartet
Anna Karénina; first English translation, 1886
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin; novella, 1886
The Cossacks, 1863
War and Peace
The Cossacks
Ceremony, 1978
Ceremony, 1977
Ceremony
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
1932 Sunset Song
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Tracks
The Red Convertible, a short story
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