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| A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | | Boone Caudill |
The Big Sky, 1949
| A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | | Jim Deakins |
The Big Sky
| Alain-Fournier | | Augustin Meaulnes |
The Wanderer, 1913; English translation, 1928
| Albert Camus | | Dr. Bernard Rieux |
The Plague
| Albert Camus | | Jean-Baptiste Clamence |
The Fall
| Albert Camus | | Jean Tarrou |
The Plague, 1947
| Albert Camus | | Marie Cardona |
The Stranger
| Albert Camus | | Meursault |
The Stranger, 1942
| Aldous Huxley | | Bernard Marx |
Brave New World
| Aldous Huxley | | Henry Wimbush |
Chrome Yellow, 1921
| Aldous Huxley | | Lenina Crowne |
Brave New World
| Aldous Huxley | | Lucy Tantamount |
Point Counter Point
| Aldous Huxley | | Mustapha Mond |
Brave New World
| Aldous Huxley | | Philip Quarles |
Point Counter Point, 1928
| Aldous Huxley | | Walter Bidlake |
Point Counter Point
| Alexandre Dumas | | D'Artagnan |
The Three Musketeers, first published in serial form in 1844
| Alexandre Dumas | | Edmund Dantes |
The Count of Monte Cristo
| Alexandre Dumas, Fils | | Marguerite Gautier |
The Lady of the Camellias, 1848; made into Verdi's La Traviata in 1853
| Alexandre Dumas | | Marguerite Valois |
La Reine Margot, 1845
| Alexandre Dumas | | Mercédès Mondego |
The Count of Monte Cristo
| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | | Gleb Nerzhin |
The First Circle
| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | | Ivan Denisovich |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | | Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova |
Cancer Ward
| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | | Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov |
Cancer Ward, 1968
| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | | Vera Kornilyevna Gangart |
Cancer Ward
| Alex Haley | | Chicken George |
Roots
| Alex Haley | | Kunta Kinte |
Roots, 1976
| Alice Walker | | Celie |
The Color Purple, 1982
| Alan Paton | | The Reverend Stephen Kumalo |
Cry, The Beloved Country, 1948
| Amy Tan | | Jing-Mei-Woo |
The Joy Luck Club, 1989
| André Gide | | Édouard |
The Counterfeiters, 1925, English translation, 1927
| André Gide | | Olivier Molinier |
The Counterfeiters
| André Malraux | | Ch'en |
Man's Fate, 1933
| Anthony Burgess | | Alex |
A Clockwork Orange
| Anthony Burgess | | Dim |
A Clockwork Orange
| Anthony Burgess | | Georgie |
A Clockwork Orange
| Anthony Burgess | | Janet Shirley |
One Hand Clapping
| Anthony Burgess | | Kenneth Toomey |
Earthly Powers, 1980
| Anthony Trollope | | Augustus Melmotte |
The Way We Live Now
| Anthony Trollope | | Lady Carbury |
The Way We Live Now, 1875
| Antoine De Saint Exupéry | | Henri Guillaumet |
Wind, Sand and Stars
| Antoine De Saint Exupéry | | Prévot |
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
| Antoine De Saint Exupéry | | Rivière |
Night Flight, 1931
| Anton Chekhov | | Anna Akimovna |
A Woman's Kingdom, short story
| Anton Chekhov | | Madame Ranevskaya |
The Cherry Orchard, 1904
| Aristophanes | | Euelpides |
The Birds; satirical drama, first performed, 414 BCE
| Aristophanes | | Strepsiades |
The Clouds; an elderly farmer
| Arthur Conan Doyle | | Sherlock Holmes |
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902
| Arthur Koestler | | Nicholas Rubashov |
Darkness at Noon, 1940
| Arthur Miller | | Biff |
Death of a Salesman; drama, 1949
| Arthur Miller | | Joe Keller |
All My Sons -- 1947
| Arthur Miller | | John Proctor |
The Crucible
| Arthur Miller | | Mary Warren |
The Crucible
| Arthur Miller | | Willy Loman |
Death of a Salesman
| Ayn Rand | | Balph Eubank |
Atlas Shrugged
| Ayn Rand | | Howard Roark |
The Fountainhead, 1943
| Ayn Rand | | Peter Keating |
The Fountainhead
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Anatole Ngemba |
The Poisonwood Bible
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Deanna Wolfe |
Prodigal Summer
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Eddie Bondo |
Prodigal Summer
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Harrison Shepherd |
The Lacuna
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Lev Trotsky |
The Lacuna
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Lusa Maluf Landowski |
Prodigal Summer
| Barbara Kingsolver | | Orleanna Price |
The Poisonwood Bible
| Bernard Malamud | | Harry Lesser |
The Tenants
| Bernard Malamud | | Morris Bober |
The Assistant
| Bernard Malamud | | Roy Hobbs |
The Natural
| Bernard Malamud | | Walter Whambold |
The Natural
| Bernard Malamud | | Willie Spearmint |
The Tenants
| Bernard Malamud | | Yakov Bok |
The Fixer, 1966
| Bertolt Brecht | | Ginny Jenny |
The Threepenny Opera
| Bertolt Brecht | | Lucy Brown |
The Threepenny Opera
| Bertolt Brecht | | Mac Heath |
The Threepenny Opera; drama, 1928; English translation, 1949
| Bertolt Brecht | | Polly Peachum |
The Threepenny Opera
| Betty Smith | | Francie Nolan |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
| Boris Pasternak | | Larisa Feodorovna Guishar |
Doctor Zhivago
| Boris Pasternak | | Yuri Andreievich Zhivago |
Doctor Zhivago, 1957
| Bram Stoker | | Count Dracula |
Dracula
| Bram Stoker | | Dr. Abraham Van Helsing |
Dracula
| Bram Stoker | | Jonathan Harker |
Dracula, 1897
| Carlos Fuentes | | Artemio Cruz |
The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962; English translation, 1964
| Carson McCullers | | Bernice Sadie Brown |
The Member of the Wedding, 1946
| Carson McCullers | | Jake Blount |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
| Carson McCullers | | Mick Kelly |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940
| Chaim Potok | | Reuven Malter |
The Chosen, 1967
| Charles Bukowski | | Henry Chinaski |
Autobiographical character in four novels
| Charles Frazier | | Ada Monroe |
Cold Mountain
| Charles Frazier | | Featherstone |
Thirteen Moons
| Charles Frazier | | Inman |
Cold Mountain
| Charles Frazier | | Will Cooper |
Thirteen Moons
| Charles Williams | | Richard Furnival |
All Hallows Eve, 1945
| Charlotte Bronte | | Edward Rochester |
Jane Eyre
| Charlotte Bronte | | Mr. Brocklehurst |
Jane Eyre
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | | Jeff Margrove |
Herland
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | | Terry Nicholson |
Herland; first published as serial, 1915; book, 1979
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | | Vandyck |
Herland
| Chinua Achebe | | Ezeulu |
Arrow of God, 1964
| Chinua Achebe | | Ezinma |
Things Fall Apart
| Chinua Achebe | | Nwoye |
Things Fall Apart
| Chinua Achebe | | Odili Samalu |
A Man of the People, 1966
| Chinua Achebe | | Okonkwo |
Things Fall Apart, 1958
| Colette | | Léonie Vallon |
Chéri, 1920
| Colette | | Philippe Audebert |
The Ripening Seed
| Colette | | Renée Néré |
The Vagabond
| Colette | | Vinca Ferret |
The Ripening Seed
| Cormac McCarthy | | Anton Chigurh |
No Country for Old Men
| Cormac McCarthy | | John Grady Cole |
All the Pretty Horses
| Cormac McCarthy | | Judge Holden |
Blood Meridan, 1985
| Cormac McCarthy | | Lacey Rawlins |
All the Pretty Horses
| Cormac McCarthy | | Sheriff Ed Tom Bell |
No Country for Old Men
| C. S. Forester | | Don Julian Alvarado |
The Happy Return in the Horatio Hornblower series
| C. S. Forester | | Horatio Hornblower |
A Ship of the Line; seventh book in the series, 1938
| C. S. Forester | | William Bush |
In the Horatio Hornblower series
| C. S. Lewis | | Elwin Ransom |
Out of the Silent Planet, 1938
| C. S. Lewis | | Wormwood |
The Screwtape Letters, 1942
| Daniel Defoe | | Friday |
Robinson Crusoe
| Daniel Defoe | | Robinson Crusoe |
1719 Robinson Crusoe
| Dashiell Hammett | | Clyde Wynant |
The Thin Man
| Dashiell Hammett | | Mimi Jorgensen |
The Thin Man, 1934
| Dashiell Hammett | | Nick Charles |
The Thin Man
| Dashiell Hammett | | Sam Spade |
The Maltese Falcon, 1930
| Dan Brown | | Jacques Saunière |
The Da Vinci Code
| Dan Brown | | Sophie Neveu |
The Da Vinci Code
| D. H. Lawrence | | Constance Chatterley |
1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover
| D. H. Lawrence | | Gertrude Morel |
Sons and Lovers, 1913
| D. H. Lawrence | | Gudrun Brangwen |
Women in Love, 1920
| D. H. Lawrence | | Rupert Birkin |
Women in Love, 1920
| D. H. Lawrence | | Tom Brangwen |
The Rainbow, 1915
| D. H. Lawrence | | Ursula Brangwen |
Women in Love
| Djuna Barnes | | Felix Volkbein |
Nightwood, 1936
| Doris Lessing | | Alice Mellings |
The Good Terrorist
| Doris Lessing | | Anna Wulf |
The Golden Notebook
| Doris Lessing | | Dick Turner |
The Grass is Singing
| Douglas Adams | | Arthur Dent |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| Edgar Allan Poe | | Prince Prospero |
The Masque of the Red Death; short story, 1842
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | | Tarzan |
1912 Tarzan of the Apes
| Edith Wharton | | Ethan Frome |
Ethan Frome, 1911
| Edith Wharton | | Lily Bart |
The House of Mirth, 1905
| Edith Wharton | | Newland Archer |
The Age of Innocence, 1920
| Edmond Rostand | | Christian De Neuvillette |
Cyrano de Bergerac
| Edmond Rostand | | Cyrano De Bergerac |
Cyrano de Bergerac; drama, 1897
| Edmond Rostand | | Roxane |
Cyrano de Bergerac
| Edward Albee | | George |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
| Edward Albee | | Honey |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
| Edward Albee | | Martha |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; drama, 1962
| Edward Albee | | Nick |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
| E. L. Doctorow | | Billy "Bathgate" Behan |
Billy Bathgate
| E. L. Doctorow | | Evelyn Nesbit |
Ragtime
| E. L. Doctorow | | Harry Kendell Thaw |
Ragtime
| Elie Wiesel | | Eliezer |
Night, 1956
| Elizabeth Bowen | | Thomas Quayne |
The Death of the Heart, 1938
| E. M. Forster | | Dr Aziz |
A Passage to India, 1924
| E. M. Forster | | Henry Wilcox |
Howard's End, 1910
| Emily Bronte | | Catherine Linton |
Wuthering Heights
| Emily Bronte | | Hareton Earnshaw |
1847 Wuthering Heights
| Emily Bronte | | Heathcliff |
Wuthering Heights
| Erich Maria Remarque | | Albert Kropp |
All Quiet on the Western Front
| Erich Maria Remarque | | Haie Westhus |
All Quiet on the Western Front
| Erich Maria Remarque | | Stanislaus Katczinsky |
All Quiet on the Western Front
| Erica Jong | | Adrian Goodlove |
Fear of Flying
| Erica Jong | | Isadora Wing |
Fear of Flying
| Ernest Hemingway | | Catherine Barkley |
Farewell to Arms
| Ernest Hemingway | | Frederic Henry |
Farewell to Arms
| Ernest Hemingway | | Jake Barnes |
The Sun Also Rises
| Ernest Hemingway | | Robert Jordan |
For Whom the Bell Tolls
| Ernest Hemingway | | Santiago |
The Old Man and the Sea
| Erskine Caldwell | | Jeeter Lester |
Tobacco Road, 1932
| Erskine Caldwell | | Ty Ty Walden |
God's Little Acre, 1933
| Eudora Welty | | Fay McKelva |
The Optimist's Daughter
| Eudora Welty | | Laurel Hand |
The Optimist's Daughter
| Eudora Welty | | Laura McRaven |
Delta Wedding, 1946
| Eudora Welty | | Phoenix Jackson |
A Worn Path; a short story
| Eugene O'Neill | | Brutus Jones |
The Emperor Jones; drama, 1920
| Eugene O'Neill | | Captain Adam Brant |
Mourning Becomes Electra; play cycle, first performed, 1931
| Eugene O'Neill | | Chris Christopherson |
Anna Christie; drama, 1923
| Eugene O'Neill | | Ephraim Cabot |
Desire Under the Elms; drama, 1924
| Eugene O'Neill | | Harry Hope |
The Iceman Cometh; drama, 1946
| Eugene O'Neill | | James Tyrone |
Long Day's Journey Into Night; drama, 1956
| Evelyn Waugh | | Paul Pennyfeather |
Decline and Fall, 1928
| Evelyn Waugh | | Sebastian Flyte |
Brideshead Revisited, 1945
| Evelyn Waugh | | Sir Alistair-Digby-Vaine-Trumpington |
Decline and Fall
| Flannery O'Connor | | Francis Marion Tarwater |
The Violent Bear It Away
| Flannery O'Connor | | Hazel Motes |
Wise Blood, 1952
| Flannery O'Connor | | Ruby Turpin |
The short story "Revelation" from the collection, Everything That Rises Must Converge
| Ford Madox Ford | | John Dowell |
The Good Soldier, 1915
| François Mauriac | | Bernard Desqueyroux |
Thérèse, 1927
| Franz Kafka | | Frieda |
The Castle
| Franz Kafka | | Gardena |
The Castle
| Franz Kafka | | Gregor Samsa |
The Metamorphosis
| Franz Kafka | | K. |
The Castle, 1926
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | Daisy Buchanan |
The Great Gatsby
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | Dick Diver |
Tender is the Night, 1934
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | Nick Carraway |
The Great Gatsby
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Father Zossima |
The Brothers Karamazov
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov |
The Brothers Karamazov, 1880
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov |
Crime and Punishment
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Stepan Verhovensky |
The Possessed, 1872
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Father Cayetano Delaura |
Of Love and Other Demons
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Fermina Daza |
Love in the Time of Cholera
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Florentino Ariza |
Love in the Time of Cholera
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | José Arcadio Buendía |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Melquíades |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Pilar Ternera |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Úrsula Iguarán |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Sierva María De Todos Los Ángeles |
Of Love and Other Demons
| Geoffrey Chaucer | | Harry Bailey |
The host, The Canterbury Tales, first transcribed, 1387-1400
| George Bernard Shaw | | Eliza Dolittle |
Pygmalion
| George Bernard Shaw | | Henry Higgins |
Pygmalion; a play, 1913
| George Bernard Shaw | | Jack Tanner |
Man and Superman; drama, 1903
| George Bernard Shaw | | King Magnus |
The Apple Cart, 1928
| George Bernard Shaw | | Proteus |
The Apple Cart
| George Bernard Shaw | | Raina Petkoff |
Arms and the Man; drama, 1898
| George Bernard Shaw | | Reverend James Morell |
Candida; drama, 1897
| George Eliot | | Aaron Winthrop |
Silas Marner
| George Eliot | | Daniel Deronda |
Daniel Deronda, 1876
| George Eliot | | Maggie Tulliver |
The Mill on the Floss
| George Eliot | | Mirah Lapidoth |
Daniel Deronda
| George Eliot | | Silas Marner |
Silas Marner, 1861
| George Eliot | | Tom Tulliver |
The Mill on the Floss
| George Orwell | | Boxer |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Clover |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Moses |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Napoleon |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Old Major |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Snowball |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Squealer |
Animal Farm
| George Orwell | | Winston Smith |
1984
| George Sand | | Consuelo |
Consuelo, 1843
| Gertrude Stein | | Anna Federner |
Three Lives, 1909
| Gertrude Stein | | Lena Mainz |
Three Lives
| Gertrude Stein | | Melanctha Herbert |
Three Lives
| Günter Grass | | Konrad Pokriefke |
Crabwalk
| Günter Grass | | Mahlke |
Cat and Mouse
| Günter Grass | | Oskar Matzerath |
The Tin Drum
| Günter Grass | | Pelenz |
Cat and Mouse, English translation, 1963
| Graham Greene | | Alden Pyle |
The Quiet American, 1955
| Graham Greene | | Charles Fortnum |
The Honorary Consul
| Graham Greene | | Eduardo Plarr |
The Honorary Consul, 1973
| Graham Greene | | Major Henry Scobie |
The Heart of the Matter
| Graham Greene | | Maurice Bendrix |
The End of the Affair
| Graham Greene | | Sarah Miles |
The End of the Affair
| Graham Greene | | Thomas Fowler |
The Quiet American
| Guillaume Apollinaire | | Mony Vibescu |
Les Onze Mille Verges
| Gustave Flaubert | | Emma Bovary |
Madame Bovary
| Guy De Maupassant | | Georges Duroy |
Bel-Ami, English translation, 1889
| Guy De Maupassant | | Jeanne De Lamare |
A Woman's Life, 1883
| G & W Grossmith | | Charles Pooter |
1892 The Diary of a Nobody
| Harold Pinter | | Mick |
The Caretaker; drama, 1960
| Harold Pinter | | Petey Boles |
The Birthday Party; drama, first performed, 1958
| Harper Lee | | Arthur "Boo" Radley |
To Kill a Mockingbird
| Harper Lee | | Atticus Finch |
To Kill a Mockingbird
| Harper Lee | | Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose |
To Kill a Mockingbird
| Harper Lee | | Scout Finch |
To Kill a Mockingbird
| Harper Lee | | Tom Robinson |
To Kill a Mockingbird
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | | Simon Legree |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
| Heinrich Böll | | Hans Schnier |
The Clown, first English translation, 1965
| Heinrich Böll | | Leni Pfeiffer |
Group Portrait With Lady
| Henrik Ibsen | | Gregers Werle |
The Wild Duck
| Henrik Ibsen | | Jorgen Tesman |
Hedda Gabler
| Henrik Ibsen | | Mrs Helene Alving |
Ghosts; drama, 1881
| Henrik Ibsen | | Nora Helmer |
A Doll's House
| Henry Fielding | | Captain Booth |
Amelia, 1751
| Henry Fielding | | Squire Allworthy |
Tom Jones
| Henry Fielding | | Tom Jones |
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
| Henry James | | Adam Verver |
The Golden Bowl, 1904
| Henry James | | Chadwick Newsome |
The Ambassadors, 1903
| Henry James | | Daisy Miller |
Daisy Miller; novella, 1878
| Henry James | | Fernanda Brookenham |
The Awkward Age, 1899
| Henry James | | Isabel Archer |
The Portrait of a Lady, 1881
| Henry James | | Lambert Strether |
The Ambassadors
| Henry James | | Maisie Farange |
What Maisie Knew, 1897
| Henry James | | Milly Theale |
The Wings of the Dove, 1902
| Henry James | | Olive Chancellor |
The Bostonians, 1886
| Henry James | | Prince Amerigo |
The Golden Bowl, 1904
| Henry James | | Winterbourne |
Daisy Miller
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Minnehaha |
The Song of Hiawatha
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Nakomis |
The Song of Hiawatha
| Hermann Hesse | | Emil Sinclair |
Demian
| Hermann Hesse | | Father Jacobus |
The Glass Bead Game
| Hermann Hesse | | Franz Kromer |
Demian
| Hermann Hesse | | Frau Eva |
Demian
| Hermann Hesse | | Gotama |
Siddhartha
| Hermann Hesse | | Govinda |
Siddhartha
| Hermann Hesse | | Hans Giebenrath |
Beneath the Wheel
| Hermann Hesse | | Harry Haller |
Steppenwolf
| Hermann Hesse | | Joseph Knecht |
The Glass Bead Game
| Hermann Hesse | | Plinio Designiori |
The Glass Bead Game
| Hermann Hesse | | Vasudeva |
Siddhartha and Journey to the East
| Herman Melville | | Billy Budd |
Billy Budd
| Herman Melville | | Captain Ahab |
Moby Dick
| Herman Melville | | Ismael |
Moby Dick
| Herman Wouk | | Arthur Youngblood Hawke |
Youngblood Hawke, 1961
| Herman Wouk | | Marjorie Morgenstern |
Marjorie Morningstar, 1955
| Herman Wouk | | Tom Keefer |
The Caine Mutiny
| Herman Wouk | | Victor "Pug" Henry |
The Winds of War, 1971
| Herman Wouk | | Willie Keith |
The Caine Mutiny, 1951
| H. G. Wells | | Edward Prendick |
The Island of Doctor Moreau
| Homer | | Odysseus |
The Odyssey; first transcribed, 800 BCE; first English translation, 1616
| Honoré De Balzac | | Baron Hulot |
Cousin Bette, 1846; English translation, 1888
| Honoré De Balzac | | Eugène De Rastignac |
Le Père Goriot
| Honoré De Balzac | | Lisbeth |
The title character in Cousin Bette
| Honoré De Balzac | | Raphael De Valentin |
The Wild Ass's Skin, 1831; English translation, 1896
| Ian Fleming | | James Bond |
Various titles
| Ira Levin | | Yakov Liebermann |
The Boys from Brazil
| Isaac Asimov | | Dr. Susan Calvin |
I, Robot
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | | Herman Broder |
Enemies: A Love Story
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | | Sabbatai Zevi |
Satan in Goray
| Isabel Allende | | Alba Satigny |
The House of the Spirits, 1982
| Isabel Allende | | Esteban Trueba |
The House of the Spirits, English translation, 1985
| Isabel Allende | | Pedro Tercero Garcia |
The House of the Spirits
| Isak Dinesen | | Denys Finch Hatton |
Out of Africa
| Italo Calvino | | Agilulf |
The Nonexistent Knight
| Italo Calvino | | Cosimo Piovasco Di Rondo |
The Baron in the Trees
| Italo Calvino | | Dr. Trelawney |
The Cloven Viscount
| Italo Calvino | | Medardo |
The Cloven Viscount
| Ivan Turgenev | | Arkady Islayev |
A Month in the Country; drama, 1855
| Ivan Turgenev | | Dimitry Sanin |
Torrents of Spring
| Ivan Turgenev | | Yevgeny Vasil'evich Bazarov |
Fathers and Sons, 1862
| Jack Kerouac | | Carlo Marx |
On the Road (Allen Ginsberg)
| Jack Kerouac | | Dean Moriarty |
On the Road (Neil Cassidy)
| Jack Kerouac | | Jack Duluoz |
Vanity of Duluoz
| Jack Kerouac | | Sal Paradise |
On the Road (Kerouac)
| Jack London | | Buck |
A dog; Call of the Wild, 1903
| Jack London | | Humphrey Van Weyden |
The Sea-Wolf, 1904
| Jack London | | Wolf Larsen |
The Sea-Wolf
| James Agee | | Rufus Follet |
A Death in the Family, 1957
| James Baldwin | | John Grimes |
Go Tell It On the Mountain, 1953
| James Baldwin | | Leo Proudhammer |
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
| James Farrell | | Studs Lonigan |
Studs Lonigan, 1935
| James Fenimore Cooper | | Chingachgook |
The Last of the Mohicans
| James Fenimore Cooper | | Colonel Munro |
The Last of the Mohicans
| James Fenimore Cooper | | Leatherstocking |
The Pioneers, 1832
| James Fenimore Cooper | | Magua |
The Last of the Mohicans
| James Fenimore Cooper | | Natty Bumppo |
Called Deerslayer by the Delaware in The Deerslayer
| James Joyce | | Buck Mulligan |
Ulysses
| James Joyce | | Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker |
Finnegan's Wake
| James Joyce | | Leopold Bloom |
Ulysses
| James Joyce | | Molly Bloom |
Ulysses, 1922
| James Joyce | | Stephen Dedalus |
Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
| James Leo Herlihy | | Clinton Williams |
All Fall Down, 1960
| James Leo Herlihy | | Joe Buck |
Midnight Cowboy, 1965
| James Leo Herlihy | | Rico "Ratso" Rizzo |
Midnight Cowboy
| James Michener | | Harry Brubaker |
The Bridges of Toko-Ri
| James Michener | | Lame Beaver |
Centennial
| James Michener | | Lloyd "Ace" Gruver |
Sayonara
| James Thurber | | Walter Mitty |
1939 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
| James Welch | | White Man's Dog |
Fool's Crow
| Jane Austen | | Elinor Dashwood |
Sense and Sensibility, 1811
| Jane Austen | | Elizabeth Bennet |
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
| Jane Austen | | Emma Woodhouse |
Emma, 1816
| Jane Austen | | Fanny Price |
Mansfield Park, 1814
| Jane Austen | | Fitzwilliam Darcy |
Pride and Prejudice
| Jane Austen | | Jane Bennet |
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
| Jane Austen | | Sir Thomas Bertram |
Mansfield Park
| J. D. Salinger | | Bessie Gallagher Glass |
Franny and Zooey, 1955
| J. D. Salinger | | Carl Luce |
The Catcher in the Rye
| J. D. Salinger | | Holden Caulfield |
The Catcher in the Rye
| J. D. Salinger | | Sally Hayes |
The Catcher in the Rye
| Jean-Paul Sartre | | Antoine Roquentin |
Nausea
| Jean-Paul Sartre | | Valet |
No Exit; drama, 1944
| Jerzy Kosinski | | Ben Rand |
Being There
| Jerzy Kosinski | | Chauncey Gardiner |
Being There
| Jerzy Kosinski | | Lekh |
The Painted Bird, 1965
| Jim Harrison | | David Burkett |
True North
| Jim Harrison | | J. W. Northridge |
Dalva
| J. M. Coetzee | | David Lurie |
Disgrace
| J. M. Coetzee | | Eugene Dawn |
Dusklands
| Joan Didion | | Carter Lang |
Play It As It Lays
| Joan Didion | | Elena McMahon |
The Last Thing He Wanted
| Joan Didion | | Grace Strasser-Mendana |
A Book of Common Prayer
| Joan Didion | | Inez Victor |
Democracy
| Joan Didion | | Jack Lovett |
Democracy, 1984
| Joan Didion | | Maria Wyeth |
Play It As it Lays
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Count Egmont |
Egmont; drama, 1788, English translation, 1837
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Faust |
Faust; first English translation, 1838
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Gretchen |
Faust
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Homunculus |
Faust
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Mephistopheles |
Faust
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | Werther |
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774
| John Barth | | Ebenezer Cooke |
The Sot-Weed Factor
| John Barth | | George Giles |
Giles Goat-Boy, 1966; character is also called Billy Bocksfuss
| John Barth | | Henry Burlingame |
The Sot-Weed Factor
| John Barth | | Jacob Horner |
The End of the Road, 1958
| John Barth | | Todd Andrews |
The Floating Opera, 1957
| John Buchan | | Richard Hannay |
1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps
| John Cheever | | Eliot Nailles |
Bullet Park, 1969
| John Cheever | | Leander Wapshot |
Wapshot Chronicle
| John Cheever | | Neddy Merrill |
The Swimmer, 1964
| John Dos Passos | | Fainy "Mac" McCreary |
U.S.A., a three volume set first published together in 1938
| John Fowles | | Frederick Clegg |
The Collector, 1963
| John Fowles | | Miranda Grey |
The Collector, 1963
| John Fowles | | Nicholas Urfe |
The Magus, 1966
| John Fowles | | Sarah Woodruff |
The French Lieutenant's Woman, 1969
| John Gardner | | Captain Fist |
October Light
| John Gardner | | Fred Clumly |
The Sunlight Dialogues
| John Gardner | | Henry Soames |
Nickel Mountain
| John Gardner | | Hrothgar |
Grendel
| John Gardner | | James Page |
October Light
| John Gardner | | Millie Jewel Hodge |
The Sunlight Dialogues
| John Gardner | | Nick Slater |
The Sunlight Dialogues
| John Gardner | | Peter Mickelsson |
Mickelsson's Ghosts
| John Gardner | | Peter Wagner |
October Light
| John Gardner | | Sally Page Abbot |
October Light
| John Gardner | | Taggart Hodge |
The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972
| John Hersey | | Major Victor Joppolo |
A Bell for Adano, 1944
| John Hersey | | Sergeant Borth |
A Bell for Adano
| John Kennedy Toole | | Ignatius Reilly |
A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
| John Le Carré | | George Smiley |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1974
| John O'Hara | | Julian English |
Appointment in Samarra, 1934
| John Steinbeck | | Adam Trask |
East of Eden, 1952
| John Steinbeck | | Cathy Ames |
East of Eden
| John Steinbeck | | Ethan Allen Howley |
The Winter of our Discontent
| John Steinbeck | | George Milton |
Of Mice and Men
| John Steinbeck | | Lee Chong |
Cannery Row
| John Steinbeck | | Lennie Small |
Of Mice and Men
| John Steinbeck | | Tom Joad |
The Grapes of Wrath
| John Updike | | Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy |
Terrorist
| John Updike | | Billy Gregg |
The Poorhouse Fair
| John Updike | | Harry Angstrom |
Rabbit Run and other Rabbit novels
| John Updike | | Henry Bech |
Appears in several stories and novels
| John Updike | | Jack Levy |
Terrorist
| John Updike | | John Hook |
The Poorhouse Fair, 1959
| John Updike | | Owen Mackenzie |
Villages
| Joseph Conrad | | Kurtz |
Heart of Darkness, 1902
| Joseph Conrad | | Marlow |
Heart of Darkness, 1902
| Joseph Heller | | Bob Slocum |
Something Happened, 1974
| Joseph Heller | | Captain Aardvark |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | Chaplain Tappman |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | Colonel Cathcart |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | Doc Daneeka |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | John Yossarian |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | Major Major |
Catch-22
| Joseph Heller | | Milo Minderbinder |
Catch-22
| Joyce Carol Oates | | Dr Karl Pedersen |
Wonderland
| Joyce Carol Oates | | Jean Pierre Bellefleur |
Bellefleur, 1980
| Joyce Carol Oates | | Jesse Vogel |
Wonderland, 1971
| Joyce Carol Oates | | Loretta Botsford |
Them, 1969
| Joyce Carol Oates | | Rebecca Tignor |
The Gravedigger's Daughter, 2007
| Joyce Cary | | Gulley Jimson |
The Horse's Mouth, 1944
| Joyce Cary | | Sara Monday |
The Horse's Mouth, 1944
| J. P. Donleavy | | Sebastian Dangerfield |
1955 The Ginger Man
| J. R. R. Tolkien | | Bilbo Baggins |
The Hobbit and briefly in Lord of the Rings
| J. R. R. Tolkien | | Gandolf the Great |
The Lord of the Rings
| Jules Verne | | Captain Nemo |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
| Jules Verne | | Cyrus Smith |
The Mysterious Island
| Jules Verne | | Phileas Fogg |
Around the World in Eighty Days
| Jules Verne | | Professor Lidenbrock |
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
| Jules Verne | | Professor Pierre Aronnax |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, English translation, 1873
| Kate Chopin | | Adèle Ratignolle |
The Awakening
| Kate Chopin | | Alcée Arobin |
The Awakening
| Kate Chopin | | Edna Pontellier |
The Awakening, 1899
| Kate Chopin | | Louise Mallard |
The Story of An Hour, a short story
| Kate Chopin | | Robert Lebrun |
The Awakening
| Katherine Anne Porter | | Amparo |
Ship of Fools
| Katherine Anne Porter | | Frau Greta Baumgartner |
Ship of Fools
| Katherine Anne Porter | | Jenny Brown |
Ship of Fools
| Katherine Anne Porter | | Mary Treadwell |
Ship of Fools
| Katherine Anne Porter | | Wilhelm Freytag |
Ship of Fools
| Katherine Anne Porter | | William Denny |
Ship of Fools
| Kazuo Ishiguro | | Lord Darlington |
The Remains of the Day
| Kazuo Ishiguro | | Stevens |
The Remains of the Day
| Ken Kesey | | Chief Bromden |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| Ken Kesey | | Nurse Ratched |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| Ken Kesey | | Randle McMurphy |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
| Kenneth Graham | | Mr Toad |
The Wind in the Willows, 1908
| Kingsley Amis | | Jim Dixon |
1954 Lucky Jim
| Langston Hughes | | Sandy Williams |
Not Without Laughter; 1930
| Larry McMurtry | | Augustus McCrae |
Lonesome Dove
| Larry McMurtry | | Aurora Greenway |
The Evening Star and Terms of Endearment
| Larry McMurtry | | Lonnie Bannon |
Horseman, Pass By; inspiration for the film, Hud
| Larry McMurtry | | Sonny Crawford |
The Last Picture Show
| Larry McMurtry | | Woodrow F. Call |
Lonesome Dove
| Larry Woiwode | | Martin Neumiller |
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
| Laurence Sterne | | Tristram Shandy |
1759 - 1769 in nine volume, The Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Lawrence Durrell | | Aubrey Blanford |
Livia, 1978
| Lawrence Durrell | | David Mountolive |
The Alexandria Quartet
| Lawrence Durrell | | Felix Chatto |
Livia
| Lawrence Durrell | | Justine Hosnani |
The Alexandria Quartet
| Lawrence Durrell | | L. G. Darley |
The Alexandria Quartet; Justine, 1957; Balthazar, 1958; Mountolive, 1958; Clea, 1960
| Lawrence Durrell | | Paul Capodistria |
The Alexandria Quartet
| Leo Tolstoy | | Anna Karenina |
Anna Karénina; first English translation, 1886
| Leo Tolstoy | | Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky |
Anna Karenina
| Leo Tolstoy | | Count Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov |
War and Peace
| Leo Tolstoy | | Ivan Ilyich |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin; novella, 1886
| Leo Tolstoy | | Olyenin |
The Cossacks, 1863
| Leo Tolstoy | | Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky |
War and Peace
| Leo Tolstoy | | Uncle Yeroshka |
The Cossacks
| Leslie Marmon Silko | | Old Ku'oosh |
Ceremony, 1978
| Leslie Marmon Silko | | Tayo |
Ceremony, 1977
| Leslie Marmon Silko | | Thought-Woman |
Ceremony
| Lewis Carroll | | The Caterpillar |
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
| Lewis Carroll | | The Cheshire Cat |
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
| Lewis Carroll | | The Queen of Hearts |
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
| Lewis Grassic Gibbon | | Chris Guthrie |
1932 Sunset Song
| Louise Erdrich | | Agnes DeWitt |
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
| Louise Erdrich | | Father Damien Modeste |
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
| Louise Erdrich | | Fidelis Waldvogel |
The Master Butchers Singing Club
| Louise Erdrich | | Fleur Pillager |
Tracks
| Louise Erdrich | | Lyman Lamartine |
The Red Convertible, a short story
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