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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 novels, plays, and poetry--from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. Features include concise biographies of the authors, panels covering such topics as "The Detective in Fiction" and "Dickens’ Characters," and an appendix of literary awards.