Dictionary Of Literary Characters - Hardcover

 
9780550101273: Dictionary Of Literary Characters

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This new edition of Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters has been revised and expanded to bring it thoroughly up to date. More than 6,500 entries provide a guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English ? from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, from Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. New features include concise biographies of the authors, entertaining essays on such topics as ?The Detective in Fiction” and ?The Characters of Charles Dickens,” and an appendix of literary awards.

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