By Una McGovern

This new version of Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters has been revised and increased to deliver it completely brand new. greater than 6,500 entries offer a consultant to the wealth of characters created via writers in English — from the spouse of bathtub to Bertie Wooster, from Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. New beneficial properties contain concise biographies of the authors, exciting essays on such themes as “The Detective in Fiction” and “The Characters of Charles Dickens,” and an appendix of literary awards.

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Alix (so named ‘because x marks the spot’) is the adopted child of a superstitious workingclass couple. Curious and precocious, it is Alix’s duty to ‘cheat time’, explore the world and ‘find the buried treasure’. Ali and Ali(x) are perhaps the same person; frequently female, Ali finds herself disconcertingly ensnared by the love of which she writes: ‘Thousands of miles away your tears tap tap on the board. ’ Alice Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , 1865 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There , 1872 Lewis Carroll Alice, a slightly prim seven-year-old, is an intelligent curious well-read little girl who pits her wits against the odd and often cross characters she meets, trying to make sense of them and their activities.

She has principles, but becomes disappointed by the way that politics prove to be an unsatisfactory vehicle for them. Searching for inner peace, as well as outer contentment, she is full of guilt. She is a disenchanted ‘good girl’, who is loving, caring and anxious. Her rebellion comes from a crisis within her, but she is deeply sincere in her thoughts and feelings. Alice Magnificence , 1973 Howard Brenton A homosexual Tory cabinet minister, with a background of Oxford and the army and a constituency ‘the wrong side of Leicester’, he is caustic, ambitious, ruthless and a favourite within the Conservative party.

Husband has apparently repudiated her and their home, she sets off in pursuit of him. Anger turns Agape to jealousy when she mistakes ANTIPHOLUS OF The Faerie Queene , 1590^6 SYRACUSE for her husband and learns that he has Sir Edmund Spenser been pursuing her sister. Her assumptions result The mother of Priamond, Diamond and in Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse taking TRIAMOND. Her name is representative of refuge in an abbey, Adriana explaining to the Christian love. A fairy gifted with secret skills abbess that the man she believes to be her and powers of nature, she conceived in the husband is mad.

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