Dictionary of Literary Characters

Abstract

Welcome to the Dictionary of Literary Characters, an immense and unique collection of more than 40,000 literary figures found in novels, short stories, and plays from the United States, Great Britain, and all over the world. The literary works examined here range from ancient Greek classics such as Euripides’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone to 21st-century prizewinners such as Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex. No other reference covers so many characters in so many different works.