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• Островский, Александр Николаевич, 1823-1886 -- Characters
• Aeschylus -- Characters
• Aksakov, S. T. (Sergeĭ Timofeevich), 1791-1859 -- Characters
• Antimachus, of Colophon -- Characters
• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters
• Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Characters
• Bannerman, Helen, 1862-1946 -- Characters
• Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 -- Characters
• Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 -- Characters
• Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 -- Characters
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 -- Characters
• Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Characters
• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Characters
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Characters
• Caesar, Julius -- Characters
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de -- Characters
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Characters
• Chapman, George, 1559?-1634 -- Characters
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters
• Chinese language -- Characters
• Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Characters
• Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684 -- Characters
• Dante -- Characters
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Characters
• Delibes, Miguel -- Characters
• Dickens, Charles -- Characters
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge -- Characters
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Characters
• Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Characters
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters
• Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de, 1533-1594 -- Characters
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Characters
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Characters
• Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891 -- Characters
• Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592 -- Characters
• Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872 -- Characters
• Gutzkow, Karl, 1811-1878 -- Characters
• Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122 -- Characters
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Characters
• Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 -- Characters
• Hémon, Louis, 1880-1913 -- Characters
• Hebbel, Friedrich, 1813-1863 -- Characters
• Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Characters
• Homer -- Characters
• Horace -- Characters
• Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 -- Characters
• Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Characters
• Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 1743-1819 -- Characters
• Jesus Christ -- Characters
• Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Characters
• Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Characters
• Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Characters
• Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811 -- Characters
• Krasiński, Zygmunt, 1812-1859 -- Characters
• Kurz, Hermann, 1813-1873 -- Characters
• Lang -- Chinese -- Characters
• Lang -- Japanese -- Characters
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Characters
• Mahābhārata -- Characters
• Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873 -- Characters
• Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873. Promessi sposi -- Characters
• Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Characters
• Meredith, George, 1828-1909 -- Characters
• Mickiewicz, Adam, 1798-1855 -- Characters
• Mörike, Eduard Friedrich, 1804-1875 -- Characters
• Moliere, 1622-1673 -- Characters
• Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1823-1886 -- Characters
• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Characters
• Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Characters
• Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Characters
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Characters
• Rachilde, 1860-1953 -- Characters
• Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 -- Characters
• Reuter, Fritz, 1810-1874 -- Characters
• Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918 -- Characters
• Rovetta, Gerolamo, 1850-1910 -- Characters
• Słowacki, Juliusz, 1809-1849 -- Characters
• Sand, George, 1804-1876 -- Characters
• Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 -- Characters
• Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Characters
• Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 -- Characters
• Seuss, Dr. -- Characters
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters
• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Characters
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916 -- Characters
• Sophocles -- Characters
• Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Characters
• Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Characters
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Characters
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Characters
• Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Characters
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 -- Characters
• Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 -- Characters
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters
• Ulrich, von Zatzikhoven, active approximately 1200 -- Characters
• Virgil -- Characters
• Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century -- Characters
• Women in literature -- Characters
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Characters

• A.N. Ostrovskiĭ i ego doreformennye tipy (Izd. t-va I.D. Sytina, 1901), by Ḟ. Nelidov, Imperatorskīĭ moskovskīĭ universitet. Pedagogicheskoe obshchestvo, and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kritische studien über die kunst der charakteristik bei Aeschylos und Sophokles. I-IV abschnitt ... (Fr. Campe & sohn, 1875), by Johann Karl Fleischmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tipy Aksakova. (Izd-vo "Slovarʹ lit. Tipov", 1914), by Nikolaĭ Dmitrievich Noskov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry: A fragment printed for the use of scholars, by E. F. M. Benecke (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Burns rebellion : a conference of the best-known character creations of Robert Burns (T.S. Denison, 1913), by Edith F. A. U. Palmer Painton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die bei Caius Julius Caesar vorkommenden keltischen namen in ihrer Echtheit festgestellt und erläutert (Literarisch-Artistische, 1857), by Christian Wilhelm von Glück (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer's "Litel Clergeon". (University of Chicago Press, 1906), by Carleton Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer's Lollius (Harvard University Press], 1917), by George Lyman Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The delineation of character in Chaucer's narrative poetry (1920), by Paulus John Herman Lange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rudiments ... (Imprimerie de la Mission catholique, 1905), by Léon Wieger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, by Warren S. Walker (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• La vérité chex Corneille démontrée par l'analyse de ses principaux personnages (Hachette, 1860), by Alexandre Lecœur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les femmes dans les tragédies de Corneille ... (Impr. vve Éd. Ménez, 1920), by Jeanne Le Guiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Personaggi storici e mitologici rammentati nella Divina commedia, con riferenze ai luoghi ed alle fonti del poema. (R. Bemporad & figlio; [etc., etc.], 1895), by Giuseppe Coen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figure dantesche. (L.S. Olschki, 1893), by G. Crescimanno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ore ed ombre dantesche. (F. Le Monnier, 1921), by Corrado Ricci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Di alcuni caratteri meno popolari della Divina commedia : Guido di Montefeltro, Belacqua, Piccarda Donati. (L. Nicolai, 1889), by Francesco Muscogiuri (page images at HathiTrust)
• La personalità storica di Folchetto di Marsiglia nella Commedia di Dante, con appendice. (Ditta N. Zanichelli, 1899), by Nicola Zingarelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dante's attitude toward the church and the clergy of his times (J. J. McVey, 1921), by John T. Slattery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ombre e corpi: Il secondo cerchio dell' "Inferno" di Dante.--La figura, i movimenti e gli atteggiamenti umani nella Divina commedia e nei Promessi sposi. (S. Lapi, 1901), by Fedele Romani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A biographical guide to the Divina commedia of Dante Alighieri. (Provost, 1874), by Frances Locock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecelino da Romano nella mente del popolo e nella poesia. (Padova, 1889), by Ottone Brentari (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contrasts in Dante; a lecture delivered at the University on 24th October, 1906 (The University Press, 1906), by William Warren Vernon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great Italians of the Divina Commedia : a lecture to the members of the Dante Society, London, January 9, 1907 (Printed for private distribution, 1907), by William Warren Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessioni e battaglie. (Casa Editrice A. Sommaruga, 1883), by Giosuè Carducci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dante spiegato con Dante : il canto del conte Ugolino (Tip. del Metauro], 1868), by Giambattista Giuliani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Figure dantesche. (L. S. Olschki, 1893), by G. Crescimanno (page images at HathiTrust)
• I personaggi della Commedia di Dante (dramatis personae) (Società Editrice "Dante Alighieri" di Albrighi Segati, 1924), by Emanuele Turchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Persone, mostri e luoghi di Dante (Inferno) Aiuto alla scuola e alle prime ricerche in genere nel poema. (S. Lapi, 1914), by Costante Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Charles Dickens' heroines and womenfolk: some thoughts concerning them. A lecture. (The Roxburghe Press, 1895), by Charles Frederick Rideal and Roxburghe Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• The English Comic Characters (London: J. Lane, c1925), by J. B. Priestley
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• Bozland; Dickens' places and people (Downey & co., 1895), by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Dickens and the Yorkshire schools. (Priv print, at the Chiswick press, 1918), by Cumberland Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leigh Hunt and Charles Dickens; the Skimpole caricature (Priv. print. for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1930), by Luther Albertus Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickens : character sketches ... First series (Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1888), by Frederick Barnard and Gebbie & Husson Co. (Limited) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickens : character sketches ... Second series (Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1889), by Frederick Barnard and Gebbie & Husson Co. (Limited) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten boys from Dickens (R.H. Russell, 1903), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser, George Alfred Williams, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten girls from Dickens (Fox, Duffield & Co., 1905), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser and George Alfred Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Dickens street (John Smith, 1912), by W. R. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The children of Dickens (C. Scribner's Sons, 1926), by Samuel McChord Crothers and Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten boys from Dickens (Harper & Brothers, 1901), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser and George Alfred Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten girls from Dickens (J. F. Taylor & company, 1902), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser and George Alfred Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paul Dombey : from Dombey & son (Newson, 1896), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Dickens friends (J. B. Pond, 1916), by Frank Speaight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Charles Dickens originals (C. Scribner's sons, 1912), by Edwin Pugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boots at the "Holly tree inn," ([etc/] Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co., 1882), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Dickens a complete Dickens repertory in Dickens' own words (Musson Book co., 1912), by Charles Dickens and Thomas Alexander Fyfe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dickens's doctors : a paper read before the Philobiblon Club, May 28, 1903 (Philobiblon Club, 1905), by J. Chalmers Da Costa and Philobiblon Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Little Nell (American Book Co., 1901), by Charles Dickens and Jane Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Dickens (Gresham Pub. Co., 1912), by George Gissing and John Arnold Nicklin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten girls from Dickens. (Harper, 1905), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctors, nurses and Dickens. (The Christopher publishing house, 1939), by Robert Donald Neely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The children of Dickens (C. Scribner's Sons, 1925), by Samuel McChord Crothers and Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character sketches from Dickens (R. Tuck & Sons, 1924), by Charles Dickens, Harold Copping, and B. W. Matz (page images at HathiTrust)

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