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50 Famous Characters in Literature Flashcards

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Daisy Buchanan

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Bathsheba Everdene

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Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

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Patrick Bateman

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American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

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Harry Angstrom

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Rabbit, Run (first appearance), John Updike

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Vito Corleone

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The Godfather, Mario Puzo

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James Bond

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Casino Royale (first appearance), Ian Fleming

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Simon Legree

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Long John Silver

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Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

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Miss Havisham

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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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Humbert Humbert

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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

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Andy Palmer

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Generation X, Douglas Coupland

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Dr. Pangloss

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Candide, Voltaire

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Captain Ahab

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Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

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Colonel Aureliano Buendía

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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Quasimodo

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

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Mr. Kurtz

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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

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Yossarian

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Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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Offred

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The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

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Madame Defarge

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A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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Hester Prynne

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The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Scarlett O’Hara

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Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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Nick and Nora Charles

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The Thin Man (first appearance), Dashiell Hammett

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Leopold Bloom

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Ulysses, James Joyce

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John Galt

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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

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Phillip Marlowe

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The Big Sleep (first appearance), Raymond Chandler

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Captain Nemo

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (first appearance), Jules Verne

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Holly Golightly

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

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Major Major

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Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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Hercule Poirot

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (first appearance but bet known for Murder on the Orient Express et al), Agatha Christie

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Gregor Samsa

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The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

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Bigger Thomas

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Native Son, Richard Wright

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Sherlock Holmes

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A Study in Scarlet (first appearance), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sam Spade

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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

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Holden Caulfield

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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

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Elizabeth Bennet

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Price and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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Phileas Fogg

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Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

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Tom Joad

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The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

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Atticus Finch

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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

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Jo March

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Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

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Anne Shirley

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Anne of Green Gables (first appearance), Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lisbeth Salandar

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (first appearnce), Steig Larsson

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Lady Brett Ashley

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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

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Dorothy Gale

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (first appearance), L. Frank Baum

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The Artful Dodger

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Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

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Jean Valjean

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Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

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George Smiley

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Call for the Dead (first appearance but best known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), John Le Carre

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Edmond Dantes

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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Becky Sharp

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Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

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Ignatius J. Reilly

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A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

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