Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters (Paperback)
"This is a great plum pudding of a book stuffed with interesting titbits, pithy summaries, tantalizing tastes of those novels you've always meant to read"Reference Reviews
Over 6,500 entries
Comprehensive coverage, from the characters of the classics to the main figures in popular genres
Author/title index and full cross-referencing
£15
£11.25
ISBN-13:
978 0550 10214 0
Paperback
848pp
216 x 138mm
Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters provides an invaluable guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English, with over 6,500 entries - from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter.
Features include concise biographies of authors, panels covering such topics as 'The Detective in Fiction' and 'Dickens' Characters', and an appendix of literary awards.
