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Horacio (friend of title character)
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Hamlet
2
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Gertrude (queen of Denmark and title character’s mother)
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Hamlet
3
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Ophelia drowns
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Hamlet
4
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Title character mistakenly stabs Polonius, thinking it’s Claudius
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Hamlet
5
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Title character jokes with Claudius about where he has hidden Polonius’s body
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Hamlet
6
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Creon (leader of Thebes)
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Oedipus
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Jocasta (mother and alter wife of title character)
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Oedipus
8
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Title character vows to find murderer of former king of Thebes
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Oedipus
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Title character asks Creon to ask an oracle at Delphi about a plague in Thebes
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Oedipus
10
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Title character resolves to never return to Corinth
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Oedipus
11
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Duncan (king of Scotland)
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Macbeth
12
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Banquo (friend of title character)
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Macbeth
13
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First scene is of a meeting between the three Witches
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Macbeth
14
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Title character kills King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself
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Macbeth
15
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Title character receives title of “Thane of Cawdor”
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Macbeth
16
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Captain Ahab (captain of the Pequod, lost a leg from title animal)
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Moby Dick
17
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Queequeg (cannibal tribesman from Rokovoko)
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Moby Dick
18
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Protagonist has to share a bed with Queequeg in an inn
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Moby Dick
19
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Starts with “call me Ishmael.”
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Moby Dick
20
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Ahab will give the first man to spot the title animal a doubloon
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Moby Dick
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Agamemnon (king of Mycenae)
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Iliad
22
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Patroclus (companion of Achilles)
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Iliad
23
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Takes place during the Trojan War (Trojans against Achaeans)
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Iliad
24
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Patroclus is killed in Book 16
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Iliad
25
George Wilson (mechanic, kills titular character)
The Great Gatsby
26
Jordan Baker (Nick’s girlfriend)
The Great Gatsby
27
Myrtle Wilson says she lives in the “Valley of Ashes”
The Great Gatsby
28
Titular character and Daisy hit Myrtle with their car
The Great Gatsby
29
Nick returns to the Midwest at the end
The Great Gatsby
30
Dulcinea del Toboso (unseen character, believed to be a beautiful princess by titular character)
Don Quixote
31
Alonso Quijano (real name of protagonist, who invents the titular name for himself after falling into insanity)
Don Quixote
32
Protagonist goes mad and decides to be a knight-errant
Don Quixote
33
Protagonist asks Sancho Panza to be his squire
Don Quixote
34
Titular character is defeated by the Knight of the White Moon
Don Quixote
35
Mercutio (member of House Escalus, close friend of first titular character)
Romeo and Juliet
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Lord Capulet (patriarch of Capulet family, father of second titular character)
Romeo and Juliet
37
Conflict between Montague and Capulet families is central to the plot
Romeo and Juliet
38
First titular character kills Count Paris
Romeo and Juliet
39
First titular character sneaks into the Capulet orchard
Romeo and Juliet
40
Harry Bailey (“Host”, travels with the pilgrims)
The Canterbury Tales
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Madame Eglantine (“Prioress”)
The Canterbury Tales
42
Framing narrative is that the tales are part of a story telling contest between pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
43
Made up of multiple “tales” from the pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
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Story starts in April
The Canterbury Tales
45
Raphael (angel sent to Eden to strengthen Adam and Eve against Satan)
Paradise Lost
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Michael (archangel sent to Eden, militarily skilled)
Paradise Lost
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Satan and other fallen angels get banished to Hell (Tartarus)
Paradise lost
48
Adam gets a vision of the future from Archangel Michael
Paradise lost
49
A war in Heaven of Satan’s rebellion against the angels occurs
Paradise Lost
50
Katharine Smith (Winston’s wife, she and Winston are very distant)
1984
51
Syme (Winston’s coworker, becomes an unperson)
1984
52
Protagonist works at ministry of Truth to rewrite historical records
1984
53
O’Brien is revealed to be a member of the Thought Police
1984
54
Protagonist reads The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Goldstein
1984
55
Cassio (titular character’s loyal captain)
Othello
56
Brabantio (Venetian senator and Desdemona’s father)
Othello
57
Titular character kills his wife by smothering her with a pillow
Othello
58
Brabantio accuses title character of seducing Desdemona with witchcraft
Othello
59
Celebration in second act because a storm has destroyed the enemy Turkish fleet
Othello
60
Penelope (queen of Ithaca and wife to titular character)
Odyssey
61
Phemius (Ithacan bard)
Odyssey
62
Begins after the end of the Trojan War
Odyssey
63
Title character assumed dead while on his decade long journey back to Ithaca
Odyssey
64
Title character’s wife and son have to deal with a group of suitors who want the wife’s hand in marriage
Odyssey
65
Hester Prynne (protagonist)
The Scarlet Letter
66
Roger Chillingworth (husband of protagonist)
The Scarlet Letter
67
Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Scarlet Letter
68
Protagonist is forced to wear the letter “A” for adultery
The Scarlet Letter
69
Protagonist’s daughter Pearl has a fascination with the letter A
The Scarlet Letter
70
Prospero (former Duke of Milan)
The Tempest
71
Miranda (Prospero’s daughter)
The Tempest
72
Main character was usurped by his brother Antonio to be Duke of Milan
The Tempest
73
Most of the story takes place on a remote island
The Tempest
74
Main character uses his magical powers to wreck a ship carrying his brother Antonio on it
The Tempest
75
Elizabeth Bennet (protagonist, pushed to marry for convenience but wants to marry for love)
Pride and Prejudice
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Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy (Love interest of protagonist, owner of Pemberley estate)
Pride and Prejudice
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Protagonist and love interest have to overcome the titular concepts
Pride and Prejudice
78
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and prejudice
79
Darcy proposes to Elizabeth at the end of the novel
Pride and prejudice
80
Goneril (Titular character’s eldest daughter)
King Lear
81
Cordelia (youngest and favorite daughter of titular character)
King Lear
82
Based on a legendary king of the Britons
King Lear
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The titular monarch divides his power and land amongst his three daughters
King Lear
84
Title monarch disinherits his youngest daughter
King Lear
85
Edward Rochester (master of Thornfield hall, eventual husband of title character)
Jane Eyre
86
Sarah Reed (adopted the titular character, also her aunt)
Jane Eyre
87
Focuses on titular character’s childhood, adulthood, and romance with the mysterious Rochester
Jane Eyre
88
Main character orphaned as a child due to parents dying of typhus
Jane Eyre
89
Main character enrolled in Lowood Institution, for poor and orphaned girls
Jane Eyre
90
Juno (goddess with a grudge against the Trojan people)
Aeneid
91
Cupid (half-brother of title character)
Aeneid
92
About the title character fleeing the fall of Troy and traveling to Italy
Aeneid
93
Title character is ancestor to all Romans
Aeneid
94
Title character and Turnus duel in the last part
Aeneid
95
Scout Finch (narrator, ages from 6 to 9 in the novel)
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Bob Ewell (main antagonist, tries to murder narrator and her brother Jem)
To Kill a Mockingbird
97
Takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression
To Kill a mockingbird
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Scout’s father defends a black man accused of rape
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Tom Robinson gets killed while trying to escape from prison
To Kill a Mockingbird
100
Aunt Polly (title character’s aunt and caretaker)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
101
Sid (half brother of title character)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
102
Title character and two of his friends run away to Jackson’s Island to be pirates
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
103
Main character and the friends he ran away with appear at their joint funeral
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
104
Set in St. Petersburg, Missouri
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
105
“I. The Burial of the Dead”
The Waste Land
106
“Shantih shantih shantih” (end of poem)
The Waste Land
107
“To Carthage then I came / burning burning burning”
The Waste land
108
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
The waste land
109
Published in The Dial
The waste land
110
Blanche DuBois (protagonist)
A streetcar named desire
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Stanley Kowalski (husband of protagonist’s sister Stella)
A streetcar named desire
112
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”
A streetcar named desire
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Blanche’s former husband died from suicide
A streetcar named desire
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Blanche takes a bath after suffering a mental breakdown
A streetcar named desire
115
Giovanni Malatesta (murderer of his wife and the man she was cheating with)
Divine comedy
116
Geryon (winged creature that protagonist and his guide ride on to continue their journey)
Divine comedy
117
First book ends with protagonists encountering Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscarot
Divine comedy
118
A river of boiling blood and fire called Phlegethon
Divine Comedy
119
Begins with protagonist encountering a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf
Divine comedy
120
Fantine (working-class Parisian woman)
Les Miserables
121
Cosette (illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Tholomyes)
Les Miserables
122
Friends of the ABC: association of revolutionary students
Les miserables
123
Begins with protagonist being released from the Bagne of Toulon
Les Miserables
124
Ends with the 1832 June rebellion of Paris
Les Miserables
125
Phoebe (younger sister of protagonist)
The catcher in the rye
126
Mr Antolini (protagonist’s former English teacher)
The catcher in the rye
127
Protagonist stops to buy a record (“Little Shirley Beans”) for his sister
The catcher in the rye
128
Protagonist accidentally leaves the fencing team’s equipment on the subway
The catcher in the rye
129
Protagonist agrees to have a prostitute named Sunny visit his hotel room
The catcher in the rye
130
Jim Casy (former preacher)
The grapes of wrath
131
Uncle John (older brother of Pa Joad)
The grapes of wrath
132
About the Joad family moving from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression
The grapes of wrath
133
The central family travels west on Route 66
The grapes of wrath
134
Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison
The grapes of wrath
135
Stephen Dedalus (alter ego of author and recurring character in author’s works)
Ulysses (Joyce)
136
Leopold Bloom (protagonist)
Ulysses (Joyce)
137
Stephen teaches a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus
Ulysses (Joyce)
138
Bloom attends Paddy Dignam’s funeral
Ulysses (Joyce)
139
Bloom attempts to place an ad in the *Freeman’s Journal*
Ulysses (Joyce)
140
Charles Marlow (captain of a boat for an ivory trading company)
Heart of Darkness
141
Kurtz (ivory trader)
Heart of darkness
142
The natives worship Kurtz
Heart of darkness
143
A Russian wanderer boards the steamboat
Heart of darkness
144
The steamboat gets attacked by a barrage of arrows during a foggy morning
Heart of darkness
145
Cunegonde (In love with titular character)
Candide
146
Cacambo (Spanish-Peruvian, title character’s valet)
Candide
147
Title character gets captured by Bulgar (Prussian) forces and gets coerced into military service
Candide
148
Title character escapes the army and makes his way to Holland
Candide
149
Pangloss, the titular character, and a sailor reach Lisbon and get hit by several natural disasters
Candide
150
Hrothgar (king of the Danes)
Beowulf
151
Grendel (monster and one of the antagonists)
Beowulf
152
Title character tears Grendel’s arm from his shoulder
Beowulf
153
A dragon goes on a rampage after finding out its golden cup was stolen
Beowulf
154
Grendel’s mother lives under a lake
Beowulf
155
Widow Douglas (takes title character in and tries to civilize him)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
156
Miss Watson (sister of widow)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
157
Title character reunites with Jim on Jackson’s Island
Adventures of huckleberry Finn
158
Title character and Jim get swindled by two men claiming to be a King and a Duke
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
159
The Grangerford family is engaged in a blood feud with the Shepherdson family
Adventures of huckleberry Finn
160
Theseus (Duke of Athens)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
161
Hermia (daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander)
A midsummer night’s dream
162
*Pyramus and Thisbe* is performed in Athens
A midsummer night’s dream
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Theseus and Hippolyta have a wedding
A midsummer nights dream
164
Lysander and Hermia escape into the forest away from Theseus
A midsummer nights dream
165
Emily Webb (main character, wife of George Gibbs)
Our town
166
Frank Gibbs (father of George, town doctor)
Our town
167
Takes place in Grovers Corners from 1901 to 1913
Our town
168
Emily and George marry in act ii
Our town
169
Simon struggles with alcoholism
Our town
170
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky (title character cheats with him)
Anna karenina
171
Kitty and her mother travel to a German spa so Kitty can get well
Anna karenina
172
Prince Stephan **”Stiva”** Arkadyevich Oblosnky
Anna karenina
173
Title character is dependent on morphine to help her sleep
Anna karenina
174
Vronsky rides his mare Frou-Frou too hard
Anna karenina
175
Luzhin (engaged to Dunya)
Crime and punishment
176
Razumikhin (former law student and friend of protagonist)
Crime and punishment
177
Protagonist lives in a tiny rented room in St Petersburg
Crime and punishment
178
Protagonist visits an elderly pawnbroker on the pretext of pawning a watch
Crime and punishment
179
Protagonist gets a letter that says his sister Dunya will marry a wealthy suitor named Luzhin
Crime and punishment
180
Charon (mans the ferry that takes the protagonist across the river Acheron)
Inferno
181
Pluto/Plutus (guards the fourth circle - greed)
Inferno
182
The city of Dis contains Lower Hell in its walls
Inferno
183
Protagonist faints during the passage across the Acheron and wakes when they get to the other side
Inferno
184
The Harrowing of Hell - Jesus taking a few biblical figures from hell into Heaven
Inferno
185
Friday - native Caribbean who becomes friend/servant to title character
Robinson Crusoe
186
Xury (servant to title character, later given to the Portuguese sea captain as an indentured servant)
Robinson Crusoe
187
Title character and Friday fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees
Robinson Crusoe
188
Title character teaches Friday English and converts him to christianity
Robinson Crusoe
189
Title character gets enslaved by a Moor but escapes two years later
Robinson Crusoe
190
Count Pyotr Kirillovich “Pierre” Bezukhov (the central character)
War and Peace
191
Bilibin (a clever diplomat)
War and peace
192
Begins at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer
War and peace
193
Contains 24 philosophical chapters about the author’s comments and views
War and peace
194
Petya manages to catch a biscuit thrown from a balcony window by the Czar
War and peace
195
Takes place during the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War
The charge of the light brigade
196
“Charging an army, while / All the world wonder’d:”
The charge of the light brigade
197
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”
The charge of the light brigade
198
“How they rode onward”
The charge of the light brigade
199
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”
The charge of the light brigade
200
Bernard Marx (sleep-learning specialist and Alpha-Plus)
Brave New World
201
Mustapha Mond (Resident world controller of Western Europe)
Brave New world
202
Bernard’s boss contemplates sending him to Iceland because of his non comformity
Brave New world
203
Bernard takes a holiday with Lenina to a Savage Reservation in New Mexico
Brave New world
204
John is only able to articulate his feelings in terms of Shakespeare drama
Brave new world
205
Jose Arcadio buendia (founder of Macondo, patriarch of family)
One hundred years of solitude
206
Ursula Iguaran (matriarch of Buendia family)
One hundred years of solitude
207
Aureliano joins a civil war against the Conservative government
One hundred years of solitude
208
The Buendia family is destroyed by a windstorm at the end of the novel
One hundred years of solitude
209
Aureliano spends the rest of his life making tiny goldfish in his workshop
One hundred years of solitude
210
Robert walton (ship captain who gets told the whole story)
Frankenstein
211
Elizabeth Lavenza (adopted sister and wife of title character)
Frankenstein
212
Title character studies at the university of Ingolstadt in Germany
Frankenstein
213
A character promises to live with his lover forever in the South American wilderness
Frankenstein
214
Title character’s mother dies of scarlet fever
Frankenstein
215
Chaplain Tappman (Anabaptist minister)
Catch-22
216
Milo Minderbinder (mess officer at the base)
Catch-22
217
Mostly takes place on the island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean Sea
Catch-22
218
Main character retreats under the guise of having a chronic liver condition to avoid flying combat missions
Catch-22
219
Main character frequently causes panic by starting rumors and orchestrating events that keep him out of battle
Catch-22
220
Colonel Cathcart is obsessed with maintaining an image of extreme masculinity
Catch-22
221
D’Artagnan (wants to take on the title job)
The three musketeers
222
Milady de Winter (enemy spy)
The three muskateers
223
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are the title characters
The three musketeers
224
D’Artagnan gets beat unconscious with a cooking pot and a metal tong
The three musketeers
225
D’Artagnan offends the title characters and must fight in a duel with each of them
The three musketeers
226
Simon Legree (main antagonist and slaveowner)
Uncle toms cabin
227
Eliza (slave and personal maid to Ms Shelby)
Uncle Toms Cabin
228
Arthur shelby loses his farm because of his debts
Uncle toms cabin
229
Title character refuses Legree’s order to whip his fellow slave
Uncle Toms cabin
230
Eva experiences a vision of Heaven before she dies
Uncle Toms Cabin
231
Eliza Doolittle (flower shop owner, gets made to “talk like a lady”)
Pygmalion
232
Henry Higgins (linguist)
Pygmalion
233
Pickering came from India to meet Higgins, and Higgins was gonna go to India to meet Pickering
Pygmalion
234
The Eynsford-Hills are living in “genteel poverty”
Pygmalion
235
A character is described as the “most original moralist in England” by another character
Pygmalion
