characters and characteristics in lit

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characters and characteristics in lit

Characters in 20th-century literature

  • Harris, Laurie Lanzen
1990
Presents essays on 2,000 literary characters from 600 works of 20thcentury literature.

Characters in 19th-century literature

  • Howes, Kelly King
1993
Presents essays on over 2,200 literary characters from 200 works of 19thcentury literature.

Imaginary people

a who's who of modern fictional characters
  • Pringle, David
1988
Lists over 1,300 fictional characters, including animals, who have become famous over the last two and a half centuries.

Dictionary of American literary characters

  • Franklin, Benjamin
1990
Describes major literary characters from William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) through 1979. Includes an index with characters listed alphabetically by novel.

Characters from young adult literature

  • Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
1991
Highlights a list of memorable characters from young adult literature and an overview of plot and setting of each work.
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