| Author and Character | Novel |
| Tolstoi and Pierre Bezhukov | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nick Carraway | |
| Turgenev and Yevgeny Vasil'evich Bazarov | |
| Kafka and Josef K. | |
| Hemingway and Frederic Henry | |
| Evelyn Waugh and Charles Ryder | |
| Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas | |
| Malcolm Lowry and Geoffrey Firmin | |
| Zora Neale Hurston and Janie Crawford | |
| Orwell and Winston Smith | |
| | Author and Character | Novel |
| Manzoni and Renzo | |
| Fenimore Cooper and Uncas | |
| Beecher Stowe and Eliza | |
| Hugo and Jean Valjean | |
| Kerouac and Sal Paradise | |
| Shelley and Robert Walton | |
| Lampedusa and Fabrizio Corbera | |
| Salinger and Holden Caulfield | |
| Collins and Walter Hartright | |
| Hasek and Josef Svejk | |
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