Lit by main characters

pride and prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet. The novel's protagonist

Fitzwilliam Darcy. A wealthy gentleman, the master of Pemberley, and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

Jane Bennet. The eldest and most beautiful Bennet sister.

Charles Bingley.

Mr. Bennet.

Mrs. Bennet.

Lydia Bennet.

Charlotte Lucas.

crime and punishment

Rodion Raskolnikov

Sonia Marmeladova

Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov

Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin

Dounia

Pulkheria Alexandrovna Raskolnik

war and peace

Natasha Rostova

Pierre Bezukhov

Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky

Nikolai Rostov

Dolokhov

Hélène Kuragina

Anatole Kuragin

Maria Bolkonskaya

Denisov

Sonya

catcher in the rye

Holden Caulfield

Stradlater

Mr. Antolini

Phoebe Caulfield

Jane Gallagher

Allie

Mr. Spencer

Sally Hayes

Maurice

Sunny

A Street Car Named Desire

Blanche DuBois. Stella's older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. ...

Stella Kowalski. ...

Stanley Kowalski. ...

Harold “Mitch” Mitchell.

the grapes of wrath

Tom Joad

Casy

Pa Joad

Tío John Joad

Ma Joad

Steppenwolf

Harry Haller

Hermine

Loering

Rosa

The great gatsby

Jay Gatsby

Nick Carraway

Daisy Buchanan

Tom Buchanan

Myrtle Wilson

Meyer Wolfsheim

Jordan Baker

George B. Wilson

Trimalchio

Mr. Gatz

to kill a mockingbird

Atticus Finch

Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch

Boo Radley

Jem Finch

Alexandra Hancock

Dill Harris

Mayella Violet Ewell

Robert Ewell

Tom Robinson

Maudie Atkinson

Calpurnia

The metamorphosis

Gregor Samsa. "Gregor Samsa" redirects here. ...

Grete Samsa. Grete is Gregor's younger sister, and she becomes his caretaker after his metamorphosis. ...

Mr Samsa. Mr Samsa is Gregor's father. ...

Mrs Samsa. Mrs Samsa is Gregor's mother. ...

The Charwoman.

the tale of genji

Hikaru Genji

Murasaki

Kiritsubo Consort

Aoi no Ue

Lady Fujitsubo

Ukifune

Kaoru Genji

Kiritsubo Emperor

a thousand cranes

Kikuji, the protagonist.

Chikako Kurimoto, a former mistress of Kikuji's father.

Mrs. Ota, a former mistress of Kikuji's father.

Fumiko, Mrs. Ota's daughter.

Yukiko Inamura, a pupil of Miss Kurimoto.

.

The crucible

John Proctor. A local farmer who lives just outside town; Elizabeth Proctor's husband. ...

Abigail Williams. Reverend Parris's niece. ...

Reverend John Hale. A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft. ...

Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor's wife. ...

Judge Danforth. ...

Giles Corey. ...

Mary Warren.

moby dick

Captain Ahab

Ishmael

Queequeg

Moby Dick

Father Mapple

Starbuck

Stubb

Yosemite Sam

Captain Boomer

Elijah

things fall apart

Ezinma

Ikemefuna

Okonkwo

Nwoye

Mr. Brown

Hundred Years of Solitude

José Arcadio Buendía

Colonel Aureliano Buendía

Úrsula Iguarán

Aureliano José

Santa Sofía de la Piedad

Arcadio

Amaranta

Remedios Moscote

Rebeca

to the lighthouse

Mrs. Ramsay

Mr. Ramsay

Charles Tansley

Lily Briscoe

James Ramsay

The Decamoron

Ciappelletto

Friar Cipolla

Dioneo

Neifile

Martellino

Lauretta

Masetto of Lamporecchio

Filostrato

Panfilo

Fiammetta

Pampinea

Emilia

Cimon

Elissa

Filomena

The cherry orchard

Lopahin

Gayev

Trofimov

Firs

Yepikhodov

Anya

Charlotte Ivanovna

Dunyasha

Pishchik

Ranyevskaya

Varya

Yasha

The Postmaster

The Stationmaster

A Stranger

Ulysses

Molly Bloom

Leopold Bloom

Stephen Dedalus

Buck Mulligan

Mina Purefoy

Barney Kiernan

Rudy Bloom

Martin Cunningham

Father John Conmee

Gerty MacDowell

The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne

Arthur Dimmesdale

Roger Chillingworth

Governor Richard Bellingham

Pearl

the jungle Book

Mowgli the Man Cub. The first character, of course, is the little man cub Mowgli. ...F

Father Wolf. Father Wolf believes in the Law of the Jungle.

...Mother Wolf. ...

Shere Khan the Tiger. ...

Baloo the Bear. ...

Kaa the Python. ...

Jane Eyre

Edward Rochester

Jane Eyre

Bertha Mason

Mrs. Reed

Helen Burns

St. John Rivers

Mr. Brocklehurst

Blanche Ingram

Maria Temple

Mrs.Fairfax

The Charge of the Light Brigade

 Lord James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan

Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary

Charles Bovary

Monsieur Homais

Rodolphe Boulanger

Monsieur Lheureux

Léon Dupuis

Madame Homais

Justino

candide

Pangloss

Cunégonde

Cacambo

The baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh

Candide

The Old Lady

Martin

the three musketeers

D'Artagnan

Aramis

Athos

Porthos

Milady de Winter

Constance de Bonacieux

Comte de Rochefort

Monsieur de Tréville

Monsieur Bonacieux

Planchet

Anne of Austria

Duke of Buckingham

Felton

Kitty

Bazin

Grimaud

Mousqueton

the satanic verses

Pamela Lovelace

Gibreel Farishta

Zeeny "Zeeny" Vakil

Saladin Chamcha

Allie Cone

Cry, the Beloved Country

Stephen Kumalo

John Kumalo

James Jarvis

Reverend Msimangu

Absalom Kumalo

All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul Bäumer. A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. ...

Stanislaus Katczinsky. A soldier belonging to Paul's company and Paul's best friend in the army. ...

Albert Kropp. ...

Müller. ...

Tjaden. ...

Kantorek. ...

Corporal Himmelstoss. ...

Franz Kemmerich.

catch 22

Yossarian

Milo Minderbinder

Doc Daneeka

Orr

Nately

Colonel Cathcart

Chief White Halfoat

Captain Aardvark

Scheisskopf

Chaplain Tappman

General Dreedle

Les Miserables

Jean Valjean

Cosette

Fantine

Inspector Javert

Gavroche

Marius Pontmercy

Éponine

Enjolras

Bishop Myriel

Thenardier

Grantaire

Madame Thénardier

Azelma

Courfeyrac

Madame Baptistine

Champmathieu

Bamatabois

Chenildieu

Toussaint

Frankenstein

Frankenstein's monster

Victor Frankenstein

Elizabeth Lavenza

Captain Robert Walton

Dr. Henry Clerval

dracula

Conde Drácula

Knock

Professor Bulwer

Jonathan Harker

Mina Harker

Lucy Westenra

Dr. John Seward

Count Dracula

Arthur Holmwood

Quincey Morris

Van Helsing

the rime of the ancient mariner

The Mariner

Pilot

Death

Wedding Guest

Don Juan

Don Juan The son of an easygoing father and a strict mother who is doted on by his parents. ...

Don José Juan's father, who is unfaithful to his wife and careless of his reputation.

Donna Inez Juan's mother, a learned woman plagued by the infidelity of her husband. .

picture of dorian gray

Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

Basil Hallward

Sibyl Vane

Alan Campbell

James Vane

Lady Victoria Wotton

the handmaids tale

Serena Joy

Ofglen

Professor Pieixoto

Offred

Nick

Moira

Luke

oliver twist

Fagin

Artful Dodger

Bill Sikes

Mr. Bumble

Nancy

Oliver Twist

Mr. Brownlow

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Jim

Tom Sawyer

Pap Finn

Aunt Polly

lord of the flies

Jack

Piggy

Ralph

Simon

Sam

Roger

Eric

1984

Big Brother

Winston Smith

Emmanuel Goldstein

Julia

O'Brien

Syme

heart of darkness

Marlow. The protagonist . ...

Kurtz. The chief of the Inner Station and the object of Marlow's quest. ...

General manager. The chief agent of the Company in its African territory, who runs the Central Station. ...

Brickmaker. ...

Chief accountant. ...

canterburry tales

The Pardoner

The Host

The Wife of Bath

The Miller

The Knight

The Narrator

night

Juliek

Madame Schächter

Moshe the Beadle

Eliezer

Shlomo

the lottery

Tessie Hutchinson

Mr. Summers

Old Man Warner

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George. A 46-year-old member of the history department at New Carthage University. ...

Martha. Martha is the 52-year-old daughter of the president of New Carthage University. ...

Nick. Nick has just become a new member of the biology faculty at New Carthage University. ...

Honey. Honey is the petite, bland wife of Nick.

The tyger

The tyger

God

Wuthering heights

Heathcliff

Catherine Earnshaw

Hareton Earnshaw

Hindley Earnshaw

Catherine Linton

Mr Lockwood

Nelly Dean

Edgar Linton

Isabella Linton

Mr Earnshaw

The emperor of ice cream

The cigar roller

The wenches

The boys

The dead woman

The red badge of courage

The tattered soldier

Henry Fleming

Jim Conklin

The lieutenant

Wilson

A Farewell to Arms

Lt. Frederic Henry

Catherine Barkley

Rinaldi

Helen Ferguson

The Priest

A Rose for Emily

Homer Barron

Emily Grierson

Mr. Grierson

Judge Stevens

Tobe

Little Women

Jo March

Beth March

Amy March

Meg March

Marmee March

lolita

Humbert Humbert. The narrator and protagonist of Lolita. ...

Dolores (Lolita) Haze. The novel's eponymous nymphet. ...

Clare Quilty. Humbert's shadow and double. ...

Charlotte Haze. Lolita's mother and Humbert's wife. ...

Annabel Leigh. Humbert's childhood love. ...

a raisin in the sun

Beneatha Younger

Walter Lee Younger

Karl Lindner

Ruth Younger

Lena Younger

Slaughter house 5

Billy Pilgrim

Wild Bob

Montana Wildhack

Howard Campbell

Edgar Derby

Eliot Rosewater

Werner Gluck

Paul Lazzaro

Gillivers Travels

Lemuel Gulliver

Mary Burton

Mr. James Bates

The Lilliputians

The Lilliputian Emperor

Flimnap and Skyresh Bolgolam

Reldresal

The Brobdingnagians

On the road

Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty

The crying of lot 49

Oedipa Maas. The novel's protagonist. ...

Mucho Maas. The husband of Oedipa, Mucho once worked in a used-car lot but recently became a disc jockey for KCUF radio in Kinneret. ...

Pierce Inverarity. ...

Metzger. ...

Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard. ...

Mike Fallopian. ...

Manny di Presso. ...

Randolph Driblette.

Pygmalion

Professor Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle's Galatea. ...

Eliza Doolittle. "She is not at all a romantic figure." So is she introduced in Act I. ...

Colonel Pickering. ...

Alfred Doolittle. ...

The Nose

Kovalev. The story's protagonist. ...

Ivan Yakovlevich. Drunk barber Ivan Yakovlevich, Praskovya Osipovna's husband, is the central character in the first of the story's three sections. ...

The Narrator. ...

The Newspaper Clerk. ...

Alice Adventures in Wonderland

Hatter

Cheshire Cat

Queen of Hearts

White Rabbit

Caterpillar

Alice

Thackery Earwicket

Mock Turtle

Tartuffe

Orgon. The protagonist, a wealthy middle-aged head of household who has a demanding mother, a son and daughter of marriageable age, an attractive second wife, and a smart-mouthed servant. ...

Tartuffe. ...

Dorine. ...

Elmire. ...

Cléante. ...

Their Eyes were watching god

Janie Starks

Joe Starks

Logan Killicks

Pheoby Watson

Nanny

Waiting for Gadot

Estragon

Pozzo

Vladimir

Lucky

Godot

Boy

The Name of The Rose

Adso of Melk. ...

William of Baskerville. ...

Abo of Fossonova. ...

Severinus of Sankt Wendel. ...

Malachi of Hildesheim. ...

The Rape of the Lock

Belinda. The protagonist of the poem, Belinda is a wealthy and beautiful young woman who travels to Hampton Court for a day of socializing and leisure. ...

Ariel. Belinda's guardian sylph. ...

The Baron. The antagonist of the poem. ...

Thalestris. ...

Tin Drum

**Oskar Matzerath** ·

Agnes Koljaiczek (Oskar's Mother)

**Alfred Matzerath**

**Jan Bronski**

Sigismund Markus

Maria Truczinski

**Anna Koljaiczek**

Dr. Fuastus

Mephistopheles

Faust

Helen of Troy

Good Angel

Bad Angel

The Devil

Valdes

Cornelius

Wagner

Robin

Pope Adrian VI

Snow Bound

 Tony Laporte and Cindy Reichert.

Ivanhoe

Cedric the Saxon, of Rotherwood.

Wilfred of Ivanhoe, his son.

Rowena, his ward.

Athelstane, his kinsman.

Gurth, his swineherd.

Wamba, his jester.

Oswald, his cup-bearer.

Elgitha, Rowena's waiting-woman.

The Raven

The narrator. Poe's unnamed narrator is a scholar who is mourning the death of his beloved, Lenore. ...

Lenore. Critics consider Lenore, the narrator's lost love, to be a representation of Poe's own deceased wife Virginia. ...

The Raven.

A Retrieved Reformation

Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer. ...

Ben Price. An “eminent” police detective and the antagonist of “A Retrieved Reformation.” ...

Annabel Adams. The fiancée of Ralph D. ...

The Warden. The man in charge of the prison where Jimmy Valentine serves time after his arrest in Springfield. ...

The time machine

Weena

The Time Traveller

The Narrator

Morlock

Eloi

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

the Grandmother and the Misfit

Minor characters (Bailey, June Star, John Wesley, the children's mother, Bobby Lee, Hiram, Red Sam, Red Sammy's wife, and the baby)

The Time of the Hero

cadets Ricardo, nicknamed the Slave, and Alberto, nicknamed the Poet

Middlemarch

Mr. Arthur Brooke

Rev. Edward Casaubon

Tertius Lydgate

Dorothea Brooke

Mary Garth

The House of the Spirits

Clara

Esteban Trueba

Alba

Blanca

Pedro Tercero

Pedro Segundo

Esteban Garcia

Pedro Garcia

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Marguerite Johnson ("Maya")

Annie Henderson ("Momma")

Bailey Johnson Jr.

Uncle Willie.

Vivian Baxter Johnson ("Mother Dear")

Paradise Lost

The Devil

God

Eve

Michael

Son of God

Adam

Raphael

The Bald Soprano

Mr. Smith Mrs. Smith Mr. Martin Mrs. Martin Mary, the maid The Fire Chief

Faust

Mephistopheles

Faust

Wagner

Gretchen

Thersites

Marthe

Valentin

Invisible Man

Ras the Exhorter

Brother Jack

Invisible Man

Rinehart

Tod Clifton

O Pioneers!

Emil Bergson

Alexandra Bergson

Mrs. Hiller

Annie Lee

Milly

Ivar

Mrs. Lee

Signa

Barney Flinn

Nelse Jensen

Don Quixote

Sancho Panza

Alonso Quijano

Dulcinea del Toboso

Rocinante

Cide Hamete Benengeli

Clavileño

Antonia Quijana

Ginés de Pasamonte

Ricote

Cardenio

The Last of The Mohicans

Hawkeye, **Magua,** **Major Duncan Heyward** · **Uncas** · **Chingachgook** · David Gamut · **Cora Munro** · **Alice Munro**.

The Iceman Cometh

Theodore Hickman. A salesman. ...

Larry Slade. The play's "Foolosopher." Larry is a tall, raw-boned Irishman in his sixties who was once a Syndicalist-Anarchist. ...

Don Parritt. ...

Harry Hope. ...

Rocky Pioggi. ...

Robinson Crusoe

Friday

Xury

Robinson Crusoe

The Portuguese captain

The Spaniard

A Study In Scarlet

 **Sherlock Holmes** · **John H. Watson** · Jefferson Hope · John Ferrier · Lucy Ferrier · Enoch Drebber · Joseph Stangerson · Brigham Young.

The Stranger

Salamano

Arthur Meursault

Kay Scarpetta

Marie Cardona

Raymond Sintes

Masson

Gone With the Wind

**Scarlett O'Hara** · **Rhett Butler** · **Ashley Wilkes** · **Melanie Hamilton** Wilkes · **Mammy** · Gerald O'Hara · Ellen O'Hara · Belle Watling.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll · **Mr. Edward Hyde** · Mr. Gabriel John Utterson · Dr. Hastie Lanyon · Mr. Poole · Mr. Enfield · Mr. Guest · Sir Danvers Carew.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau. Amateur naturalist, essayist, lover of solitude, and poet. ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Essayist, poet, and the leading figure of Transcendentalism. ...

Alex Therien. ...

John Field. ...

Amos Bronson Alcott. ...

William Ellery Channing. ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Lieutenant Berg. An officer in **Mitty's** naval-commander fantasy. · Dr. Renshaw · Wellington McMillan. The patient from **Mitty's** operating-room fantasy. · Dr. Benbow.

Around the World In 80 Days

Phileas Fogg

Jean Passepartout

Aouda

Inspector Fix

James Forster

Andrew Speedy

Sir Francis Cromarty

The Color Purple

Celie

Shug Avery

Nettie Harris

Miss Millie

Albert

Charlotte’s Webb

Charlotte A spider. Charlotte is wise and motherly to Wilbur. ...

Fern Arable A young girl. ...

Martha Arable Fern's mother. ...

Edith Zuckerman Fern's Aunt. ...

Native Son

Bigger Thomas

Mary Dalton

Jan Erlone

Mrs. Thomas

Henry Dalton

The Age of Innocence

Newland Archer

Countess Ellen Olenska

May Welland

Granny Manson Mingott

Augusta Welland