Scientist fascinated with life and decay, who creates a monster, but is turned into a guilt-ridden man determined to destroy the fruits of his arrogant scientific endeavor.
Old English hero of the Geats who kills the monster Grendel and his mother, who dies while slaying a dragon.
Orphaned, bespectacled student wizard with a lightning-bolt-shaped forehead scar.
Police inspector whose unbending commitment to the law conflicts with what is right, leading him to commit suicide.
Character who after hearing 40 thieves open a cave entrance by saying 'Open sesame' does the same and takes their treasure.
Salesman who wakes up one day and finds himself transformed into a giant insect, and struggles to reconcile his lingering humanity with his physical condition.
Man who becomes Robinson Crusoe's servant and companion after Crusoe rescues him from cannibals.
An insolent, indifferent, and alcoholic attorney whose love for Lucie transforms him into a man of profound merit, who sacrifices his life for another.
Doctor who talks to the animals in the English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in a series of books.
Eccentric and vain Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie.
12-year-old girl who eventually escapes her obsessive and abusive step-father Humbert Humbert.
Indian boy who wanders away from his family and is raised by a pack of wolves, who protect him from a tiger.
Character A.A. Milne modeled after his son in a series of books telling of his adventures with his friend Edward Bear.
Remarkably intelligent, well-read, loyal servant to Bertie Wooster, who invariably concocts subtle plans to extricate his master from sticky situations in a series of stories and novels.
Heroine who marries the learned Rev. Casaubon and finds his lack of passion unfulfilling; later finds true love with and marries Will Ladislaw, though it means giving up her inheritance.
A magical nanny of the Banks children, who arrives with a gust of wind, and leaves when the children have learned their lessons.
Stingy old London merchant who changes his mind about not celebrating Christmas after visits from spirits.
Son of Cedric; a Saxon knight loyal to King Richard I, who is disinherited by his father for following Richard to the Crusades where he won great glory and was richly rewarded by the king.
Intellectual son of Fyodor and author of a 'poem' within a Dostoevsky novel entitled the Grand Inquisitor, which has a bishop arresting Christ.
5-time widow and 3-time pilgrim to Jerusalem, aka Alice or Alisoun, who believes a woman must dominate her husband.
Pilgrim hero who travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, he represents just one profound aspect of the human experience: the search for religious truth.
Utterly charming heroine whose life story from her youth through her engagement to Prince Bolkonsky and her subsequent marriage to Pierre Bezukhov is recounted.
First wife of Max de Winter, the owner of the estate Manderley, whom the second Mrs. de Winter learns he has murdered.
English dandy and hero who rescues condemned French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Blue-blooded villainess who kidnaps a brood of puppies to make fur coats out of them in a Dodie Smith novel that eventually inspired a Disney film.
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