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Fictional Characters Flashcards

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were “How are you?… You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”

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Sherlock Holmes

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Stieg Larsson created the girl with the dragon tattoo by imagining this fictional Swedish girl as an adult

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Pippi Longstocking

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick’s neighbor is this wealthy title bootlegger

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Gatsby

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This inhabitant of 221B Baker Street had been a surgeon in the British army

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Dr. Watson

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mrs. Danvers is Maxim de Winter’s sinister housekeeper at Manderley in this novel by Daphne du Maurier

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Rebecca

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rhett Butler has a long-term affair with this Atlanta prostitute

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Belle Watling

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Melville work, Billy Budd’s last words are “God bless” this captain

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Captain Vere

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as “eye of pine”

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Pinocchio

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a play, Blanche DuBois visits this sister in New Orleans

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Stella

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Scout’s brother in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Jeremy, better known by this nickname

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Jem

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Title nickname of Harry Angstrom, a character in several of John Updike’s novels

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Rabbit

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$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title of this Dumas novel, the last adventure of the 3 Musketeers, refers to a mysterious Bastille prisoner

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the Man in the Iron Mask

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father’s killer

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Rooster Cogburn

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lemuel is the first name of this doctor & adventurer who set off on his travels in 1699

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Gulliver

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This unhappy salesman has sons named Biff & Happy

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Willy Loman

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of this Ibsen play, Nora Helmer claims her independence & walks out on her family

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A Doll’s House

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$4000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Chronicles of Narnia”, this nephew of the evil King Miraz is the rightful heir to the throne

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Prince Caspian

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the professor of symbology who is the protagonist of “The Da Vinci Code” & “Angels & Demons”

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Robert Langdon

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow

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Oliver Twist

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This character in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper

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the Headless Horseman

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She is the narrator of “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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Scout

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| 2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story

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McBoing-Boing

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes

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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, Lucy peers into an old wardrobe & discovers this magical land

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Narnia

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Snipp, Snapp & Snurr, who star in a series of books, are brothers from this Scandinavian country

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Sweden

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In the Grimm tale “The 12 Dancing Princesses”, 12 sisters dance so much that they wear out these every night

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their shoes

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$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This orphan befriends a goatherd named Peter when she’s sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps

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Heidi

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the title heroine “Of Green Gables” in a classic 1908 book

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Anne

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Spoiler alert: This March sister dies in “Little Women”

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Beth

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This E.B. White character slept in a tiny bed made of “four clothespins and a cigarette box”

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Stuart Little

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy lived with Aunt Em & this uncle, a farmer

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Uncle Henry

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days

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Phileas Fogg

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert’s rival for the love of this girl

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Lolita

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the character mentioned in the first line of “Atlas Shrugged”

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John Galt

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He first appeared in Kipling’s 1892 story “In the Rukh” as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood

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Mowgli

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In book titles, this inquisitive monkey “Visits the Library”, “Goes to the Beach” & “Goes to a Costume Party”

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Curious George

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Please look after <a>this</a> bear from Darkest Peru, thank you

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Paddington Bear

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title girl lives at a convent school in Paris; she has her appendix out in the first story about her

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Madeline

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The book about this title stuffed hare is subtitled “How Toys Become Real”

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the Velveteen Rabbit

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Alice in Wonderland”, it “vanished quite slowly… ending with the grin, which remained some time”

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Cheshire Cat

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s Huck Finn’s African-American raftmate

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Jim

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Henry James’ Isabel Archer gets some European culture, so her story can be called “The Portrait of” this

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a Lady

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Capote woman is introduced wearing pearls; “It’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty”

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Holly Golightly

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$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jocasta has 2 sons (or are they grandsons?), Eteocles & Polynices, with this man

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Oedipus Rex

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Johann & Gotthold are 2 of the Buddenbrooks, the title family in a novel by this German author

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Thomas Mann

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Fellowship of the Ring”, Gandalf warns this young hobbit to “keep” the ring “safe, and keep it secret!”

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Frodo

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The middle name of this funny “First Grader” is Beatrice, but she just likes to use the initial B. & that’s all

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Junie B. Jones

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Little Women”, she’s the tomboy among the 4 March sisters

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Jo

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Major Major Major is a major character in this book

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Catch-22

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Floral first name of Henry James’ Miller & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Buchanan

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Daisy

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Benjamin Suddlechop & Sweeney Todd operated barber shops on this street

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Fleet (Street)

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$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title James Hilton character taught classics at Brookfield School

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Mr. Chips

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Zenobia Pierce is the wife & cousin of this Edith Wharton title character

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Ethan Frome

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 24-book work Homer chronicled his journey home

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Odysseus

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A plot twist in an Oscar Wilde play hinges on her fan

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Lady Windermere

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Relationship of J.D. Salinger’s Franny & Zooey

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siblings

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$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she’s a Tolstoy title lady

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Anna Karenina

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew manipulates some ball bearings in the palm of one hand.</a>) He’s the 1951 novel character whose constant habit I’m imitating

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Captain Queeg

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this

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Tiny Tim

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In works written about 300 years apart, Nick Bottom & Pinocchio find themselves transformed into these

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donkeys

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character

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Madame Butterfly

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, he’s the reclusive owner of the factory

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Willy Wonka

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He pretty much stopped treating people after his parrot Polynesia taught him how to talk to animals

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Dr. Dolittle

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Robinson Crusoe gave this name to a native he saved from cannibals on a certain day of the week

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Friday

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 2001 tale by Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine is a beautiful & brokenhearted one of these creatures

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a mermaid

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jack Stanton, the governor of a Southern state, was a leading character in this 1996 roman a clef by “Anonymous”

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“Primary Colors”

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This author’s 7 Glass children, including Franny & Zooey, were on the radio quiz show “It’s a Wise Child”

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J.D. Salinger

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1972 book, Hunter S. Thompson sent Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo to this city to cover the Mint 400 race

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Las Vegas

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the Winston Groom title character who had an IQ near 70

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“Forrest Gump”

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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The politics in Prague turn Tomas from medicine to washing windows in this conundrum from Kundera

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“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Character from an 18th century tale who felt “Above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand”

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Gulliver

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1965 novel by this author introduced his alter ego, sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Virgil’s “Aeneid” begins after Aeneas & his family escape this war-torn city

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Troy

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Any one of the Brothers Karamazov (hint: one isn’t so “terrible”)

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Alexei (or Dmitri or Ivan)

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Oliver Twist”, Bill Sikes is an accomplice of this gang leader

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Fagin

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1816 Jane Austen title character is “of no feeble character”

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Emma

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the title husband of Mrs. Persis Lapham

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Silas Lapham

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1963 book this character found out his family motto in Latin would be “Orbis Non Sufficit”

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James Bond ("The World Is Not Enough")

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title character’s sister Gretel wins the silver skates (so why isn’t the book named for her?)

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Hans Brinker

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In stories by J.D. Salinger, Franny Glass’ brother Zachary is better known by this nickname

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Zooey

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| 4-letter name shared by a character in Dickens’ “Bleak House” & a Jules Verne captain

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Nemo

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Dostoyevsky novel, it’s the “silly” title nickname of Prince Myshkin, whose love for 2 women leads to tragedy

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“The Idiot”

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Absalom! Absalom!”, it’s the “mythological” name of Thomas Stupen’s daughter, known as Clytie for short

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Clytemnestra

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Title hero whose boarding school’s motto is “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus”, “Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon”

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Harry Potter

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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Interview with the Vampire”, Louis tells a reporter of his initiation into the world of the undead by this vampire

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Lestat

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Count Vronsky & the husband of this title character have the same first name: Alexey

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“Anna Karenina”

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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Constance Reid is the maiden name of this character mentioned in the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel

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Lady Chatterley

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Migrant ranch hands Lennie & George dream of buying a farm in this Steinbeck work

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“Of Mice and Men”

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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this Edith Wharton novel, Newland Archer marries May Welland but is tempted by Ellen Olenska

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“The Age of Innocence”

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He also created Bridget, a wife for his Poor Richard Saunders

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Benjamin Franklin

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Cat’s Cradle” his Felix Hoenikker creates Ice-Nine, a substance that can freeze the world solid

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Kurt Vonnegut

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He based Nora Charles of “The Thin Man” on his friend Lillian Hellman

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Dashiell Hammett

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Nickname of British fictional hero Hugh Drummond

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“Bulldog”

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Old Bailey legal eagle who’s been the subject of many a John Mortimer tale

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Rumpole

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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character “is Dead”

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Charlie Chan

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Agatha Christie’s mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings

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Hercule Poirot

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of “Crime And Punishment”, he is serving an 8-year term for murdering an old woman

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Raskalnikov

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Producer Irving Thalberg was the model for Monroe Stahr, the title character of this Fitzgerald novel

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The Last Tycoon

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$900 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title character is missing in the unintentionally last chapter of a Dickens mystery

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Edwin Drood

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom & Maggie Tulliver’s epitaph, “In their death they were not divided”, ends this George Eliot book

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The Mill On The Floss

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Get too close to this beloved of Quasimodo & he might just ring your bell

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Esmeralda

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He & his dog Wolf were hunting squirrels in the Catskills when he fell asleep

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Rip Van Winkle

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Vanity Fair” Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to her but she’s already secretly married to his son Rawdon

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Becky Sharp

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Last name of Soames & Irene, the 2 principal characters in John Galsworthy’s 3 novel “saga”

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Forsyte

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Roxane married Christian de Neuvillette not knowing his love letters were written by this poet & soldier

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Hardy hero may be “obscure” but he does have a last name: Fawley

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Jude

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Colette heroine is the granddaughter of a courtesan, who trains her to continue the family tradition

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Gigi

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Maggie & Tom Tulliver are the children of a miller in her 1860 novel “The Mill on the Floss”

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George Eliot

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title Defoe heroine has many misfortunes, including marrying her own brother by mistake

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Moll Flanders

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “I have not a fault to find with her person”, says Mr. Knightley, of this Jane Austen heroine

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Emma (Wodehouse)

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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Grapes of Wrath”, this matriarch says, “All we got is the family unbroke”

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Ma Joad

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sherlock Holmes described this foe as the “Napoleon of Crime”

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Professor Moriarty

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He told Brigid O’Shaughnessy, “I’m going to send you over.” The chances are you’ll get off with life”

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Sam Spade (in “The Maltese Falcon”)

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley plays around with a playwright as well as this gamekeeper

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Oliver Mellors

115
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Thackeray character is the orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera girl

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Becky Sharp (in “Vaniity Fair”)

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| As this Stephen Crane novel opens, Henry Fleming looks forward to proving himself in battle

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The Red Badge Of Courage

117
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Alice Walker novel tells Celie’s story through letters she writes to God & her sister

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The Color Purple

118
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A literary critic & a poet are rescued at sea by ruthless Capt. Larsen in this Jack London classic

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The Sea Wolf

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this novel, Carson McCullers’ first, townspeople confide in John Singer, a deaf-mute

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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

120
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Harvey Birch runs sneaky errands for George Washington in this James Fenimore Cooper novel

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The Spy

121
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mickey Spillane’s 1996 novel “Black Alley” is the first to feature this detective in 7 years

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Mike Hammer

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Della & Jim Young are the impoverished couple of his 1906 short story “The Gift Of The Magi”

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O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

123
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jake Barnes & Robert Cohn vie for the affection of Lady Brett Ashley in this Hemingway novel

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The Sun Also Rises

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This shy officer in “Catch-22” was “promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor”

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Major Major

125
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This protagonist of a Virginia Woolf novel changes from man to woman through 4 centuries

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Orlando

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The World According To” this character, he’s killed by Pooh Percy

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Garp

127
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Stingo narrates this 1979 William Styron book

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“Sophie’s Choice”

128
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Twain hero’s feminine disguise fails after he can’t remember if his name is Mary or Sarah

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Huckleberry Finn

129
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Thomas Berger book is the reminiscences of Jack Crabb, a survivor of Little Big Horn

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“Little Big Man”

130
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ulysses” Marion Tweedy Bloom is better known by this nickname

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Molly

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title character in this classic came into the world as James Gatz

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“The Great Gatsby”

132
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She started sleuthing in 1930 & in 1991 solved her 100th mystery

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Nancy Drew

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Arkady Renko, a Moscow investigator in this author’s “Gorky Park”, becomes a seaman in “Polar Star”

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Martin Cruz Smith

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Treasure” & “Raise The Titanic” by this author feature salvage expert Dirk Pitt

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Clive Cussler

135
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She had “Great Expectations” until she was jilted on her wedding day

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Miss Havisham

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”, he & the Mad Hatter host the Mad Tea Party

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The March Hare

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| It’s the nickname of Jack Dawkins, the young pickpocket in “Oliver Twist”

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The Artful Dodger

138
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She married Christian de Neuvillette but it was Cyrano de Bergerac’s poetry that she really loved

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Roxanne

139
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In plot “The Deerslayer” is chronologically the first of 5 tales about this frontiersman

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Natty Bumppo

140
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Great Gatsby”, this bonds salesman lives next door to Jay Gatsby

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Nick Carraway

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| His father, Pap Finn, is the town drunk

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Huckleberry Finn

142
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Dickens orphan Philip Pirrip is better known by this nickname

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Pip

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lassiter is the gun-slinging hero of this Zane Grey novel & appears in its sequel “The Rainbow Trail”

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“Riders of the Purple Sage”

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Kidnapped as a child, this R.D. Blackmore title heroine grew up to be quite a cookie

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Lorna Doone

145
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This orchid-loving detective made his first appearance in Rex Stout’s “Fer-De-Lance”

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Nero Wolfe

146
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The Morlocks in this H.G. Wells novel may be named for Moloch, a heathen god in the Bible

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“The Time Machine”

147
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Arabella Dean, the conniving daughter of a pig breeder, marries this “obscure” hero & then deserts him

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Jude The Obscure

148
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Defoe heroine is known by an alias; her real name is never revealed in the novel

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Moll Flanders

149
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Madge Wildfire is the mad daughter of a midwife in this Scotsman’s 1818 novel “The Heart of Midlothian”

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Sir Walter Scott

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Paul Hover is a bee hunter who ends up as a congressman in his 1820s novel “The Prairie”

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James Fenimore Cooper

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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Frederic Henry is wounded by a shell while eating cheese & macaroni in his “A Farewell to Arms”

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Ernest Hemingway

152
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Dr. Pangloss teaches this Voltaire title character metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology

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Candide

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This R.L. Stevenson story follows Mr. Utterson as he discovers these 2 characters are the same man

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

154
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title of this 1987 Toni Morrison novel is what the ghost of Sethe’s daughter calls herself

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Beloved

155
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rabo Karabekian, a minor character in “Breakfast of Champions”, is the focus of his 1987 novel “Bluebeard”

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

156
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In the James Hilton novel, it’s the profession of Mr. Chips

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Schoolteacher

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the red-headed heroine of several books by Astrid Lindgren

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Pippi Longstocking

158
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Travel writer Macon Leary is the central character of this Anne Tyler novel

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“The Accidental Tourist”

159
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The name of this James Thurber character has become synonymous with a daydreamer

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Walter Mitty

160
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, Cesar & Nestor Castillo lead this dance band

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The Mambo Kings

161
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Little Women” Jo & Meg March also appear in this author’s “Little Men”

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Louisa May Alcott

162
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Of William Golding’s Piggy, George Orwell’s Napoleon or E.B. White’s Wilbur, the one that’s not a pig

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Piggy

163
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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In books by C.S. Lewis, Aslan, one of these animals, created the world of Narnia

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Lion

164
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “A fella ain’t no good alone”, says Tom Joad in this Steinbeck novel

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“The Grapes of Wrath”

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Family marooned by author Johann Wyss

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Swiss Family Robinson

166
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Belgian created by Agatha Christie became a sleuth after retiring from the police force

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Hercule Poirot

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The high spirited Alexandra Bergson is the heroine of this author’s “O Pioneers!”

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Willa Cather

168
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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by this man, Annie Wilkes punishes Paul Sheldon for killing literary heroine Misery Chastain

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Stephen King

169
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tessie Hutchinson draws the unlucky ticket in this enigmatic Shirley Jackson story

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“The Lottery”

170
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, his defense of Tom Robinson causes his children to be harassed by classmates

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Atticus Finch

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lewis Carroll based this title girl on a daughter of the dean of Oxford’s Christ Church College

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Alice

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Fortunato is the unfortunate victim in this author’s famous horror story “The Cask Of Amontillado”

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Edgar Allan Poe

173
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Anne Rice vampire has very white skin “that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind”

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Lestat

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Montague Tigg uses the rather obvious alias Tigg Montague in his novel “Martin Chuzzlewit”

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Charles Dickens

175
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1766 novel Squire Thornhill abducts Sophia Primrose, whose father is “The Vicar Of” this

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Wakefield

176
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s often considered Boris Pasternak’s alter ego

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Doctor Zhivago

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Darby Shaw investigates the murder of 2 Supreme Court justices in this John Grisham book

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“The Pelican Brief”

178
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1992 Terry McMillan novel focuses on 4 friends: Robin, Bernadine, Gloria & Savannah

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“Waiting To Exhale”

179
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Evelyn Waugh novel is narrated by Charles Ryder

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“Brideshead Revisited”

180
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$3500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She was the first Mrs. De Winter

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Rebecca

181
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom Sawyer takes the blame when this girl, his sweetheart, tears the schoolmaster’s book

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Becky Thatcher

182
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Wuthering Heights”, Catherine Earnshaw spurns this man & marries Edgar Linton instead

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Heathcliff

183
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Melville title character’s last words are “God Bless Captain Vere!”

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Billy Budd

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| When Count Vronsky’s love for her seems to fade, she throws herself under a train

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Anna Karenina

185
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Joan Durbeyfield is the mother of this Thomas Hardy title character

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Tess (of the d’Urbervilles)

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This precocious pickpocket introduces Oliver Twist to Fagin

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The Artful Dodger

187
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Agatha Christie wrote, “I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound”

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Hercule Poirot

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Prophetically, she first meets Count Vronsky at a train station shortly before a man is run down by a train

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Anna Karenina

189
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The Empress of Blandings is a prize-winning pig who appears in stories by this creator of Jeeves

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P.G. Wodehouse

190
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$1400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John Oakhurst is a professional gambler who’s cast out of Poker Flat in a famous story by this author

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Bret Harte

191
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Senator & Mrs. Bird aid Eliza as she flees the Shelby estate in this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel

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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

192
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Gore Vidal transsexual protagonist’s original first name was Myron

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Myra Breckenridge

193
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In her “The Bell Jar”, Doreen is picked up by Lenny Shepherd, a New York disk jockey

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Sylvia Plath

194
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Blackmailer Arthur Geiger is murdered in this author’s “The Big Sleep”

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Raymond Chandler

195
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Clif Clawson is the medical school roommate of this Sinclair Lewis title character

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“Arrowsmith”

196
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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The name of this Mary Shelley scientist is often confused with his ghastly creation

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Dr. Frankenstein

197
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Like Quincy on TV, Kay Scarpetta in novels by Patricia Cornwell has this profession

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Medical Examiner

198
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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Judith Krantz bestseller, Billy Ikehorn Orsini owns this title boutique

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Scruples

199
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Howard Roark, the central architect in this novel, was supposedly modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The Fountainhead”

200
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the matriarch in “The Grapes of Wrath”

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Ma Joad

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom Sawyer & this girl write their names with candle smoke on a wall of McDougal’s cave

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Becky Thatcher

202
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This juvenile pickpocket is “as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six”

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Oliver Twist

203
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sumuru is mystery writer Sax Rohmer’s female version of this long-mustached Chinese archfiend

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Fu Manchu

204
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$1500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Some spectators denied seeing this stigma on the chest of the reverend Mr. Dimmesdale

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“The Scarlett Letter”

205
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Boris Pasternak heroine is the daughter of a Russianized Frenchwoman, Amalia Karlovna Guishar

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Lara

206
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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This boy was “lawless, and vulgar and bad” & Tom Sawyer “was under strict orders not to play with him”

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Huckleberry Finn

207
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Charles Dickens considered calling this title character Spankle or Copperboy

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David Copperfield

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Bronte heroine uses the pseudonym Jane Elliott after she flees from Mr. Rochester

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Jane Eyre

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This detective was modeled in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s teachers

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Sherlock Holmes

210
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This D.H. Lawrence “lady” plays around with a playwright before she gambols with a gamekeeper

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Lady Chatterley

211
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ivanhoe” Wilfred has been disinherited for following this crusading king

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Richard the Lionhearted

212
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| George Wilson kills this Fitzgerald title character after Daisy runs over Wilson’s wife

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the Great Gatsby

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the start of “The Grapes of Wrath”, this character, just released from prison, meets Jim Casy

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Tom Joad

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mrs. Berry & Egg die in a plane crash on their way to Vienna in his 1981 novel “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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(John) Irving

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this 1957 Kerouac novel, Old Bull Lee is based on author William S. Burroughs

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On the Road

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The form of this Philip Roth novel is a monologue by Alexander Portnoy to his psychiatrist

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“Portnoy’s complaint”

217
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| On his deathbed this slave forgives his sadistic master Simon Legree

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Uncle Tom

218
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Kay Strong Petersen & Dottie Renfrew are 2 of the Vassar grads in her novel “The Group”

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Mary McCarthy

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Gibreel Farishta & Saladin Chamcha fall from an exploded jet at the start of this Salman Rushdie novel

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“The Satanic Verses”

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Ricky Roma is the top real estate salesman in his novel “Glengarry Glen Ross”

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(David) Mamet

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels

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Perry Mason

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Irwin Shaw introduced brothers Thomas & Rudolph Jordache in this 1970 bestseller

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Rich Man, Poor Man

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Keeper of the Keys” was Earl Derr Biggers’ final adventure about this Chinese-American sleuth

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Charlie Chan

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a George Eliot novel, this miserly weaver becomes stepfather to Eppie Cass

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Silas Marner

225
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| After giving up his wealth, this Dumas character sails away with Haydee, never to be seen again

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the Count of Monte Cristo

226
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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Chile’s Juan Fernandez islands include a pair named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional character

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Robinson Crusoe

227
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the title character in “Death of a Salesman”

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Willy Loman

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Bromden, a half-Indian who has shut out society by pretending to be deaf & mute, narrates this Ken Kesey novel

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by Muriel Spark, she devotes her “prime” years to teaching at a girls’ school

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Miss Jean Brodie

230
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This eccentric old lady in “Great Expectations” dies after her wedding gown catches fire

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Miss Havisham

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1906 Upton Sinclair novel centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a worker in the Chicago stockyards

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The Jungle

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island”, this captain dies & his ship the Nautilus is sunk

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Nemo

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In Erle Stanley Gardner’s “The Case of the Terrified Typist”, this attorney lost the case

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Perry Mason

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Longfellow took the name of this fictional Indian from a 15th century Iroquois chief

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Hiawatha

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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Beaumarchais’ third play about this barber was called “La Mere Coupable”

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Figaro

236
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$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the incarcerated king of Ruritania in this English romance by Anthony Hope

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The Prisoner of Zenda

237
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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Her married name was Hedda Tesman

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Hedda Gabler

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1962 Solzhenitsyn work describes one day in the life of this prisoner

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Ivan Denisovich

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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| According to the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel, it’s who Mellors is

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“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montague has the job of burning books

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“Fahrenheit 451”

241
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The murder of this perfumery girl occured about 2 years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue

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Marie Roget

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This captain of the Nautilus, whose name means “no one”, disappears at the end of the novel

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Captain Nemo

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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John is a Shakespeare-quoting “savage” found on a N.M. reservation in this Huxley novel

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“Brave New World”

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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In wooing her, Siegfried was standing in for someone else, & when she found out, she killed him

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Brunhilde

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$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The silly Mrs. Bennet is the mother of Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty & Mary in this classic

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“Pride And Prejudice”

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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Cecilia Brady is out to kill her father in this last F. Scott Fitzgerald novel

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“The Last Tycoon”

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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This F. Scott Fitzgerald character was born James Gatz

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The Great Gatsby

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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ivanhoe” the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise

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Richard the Lionhearted

249
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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| For saving this little girl from the waters of the Mississippi, Uncle Tom was bought by her father

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Little Eva

250
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John D. MacDonald used colors in the titles of all the adventures of this private investigator

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Travis McGee

251
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Grip, Barnaby Rudge’s pet, was this type of bird; Poe would have approved

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Raven

252
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 19th century novel, this stranded family built a house in a tree

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Swiss Family Robinson

253
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This “Wuthering Heights” character forces Catherine’s daughter to marry his son

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Heathcliff

254
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The pilgrims in this poetic work include a knight, a cook, a squire, a miller & a merchant

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“The Canterbury Tales”

255
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This fictional animal, who was found in a London station, celebrated his 30th anniversary in 1988

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Paddington Bear

256
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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Hired as a ship’s cook, he led the mutiny aboard the Hispaniola

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Long John Silver (in Treasure Island)

257
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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Byron wrote an epic poem about this Latin lover whose mother sent him abroad at age 16 after an “intrigue”

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Don Juan

258
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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| According to the Browning poem, he could also get rid of “The mole and toad and newt and viper”

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the Pied Piper of Hamelin

259
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Ebenezer Scrooge very reluctantly gave him Christmas Day off

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Cratchit

260
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Caroline Meeber is better known as this, the title of a Theodore Dreiser novel

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Sister Carrie

261
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a famous epic poem, this Arthurian hero accepts the challenge of the Green Knight

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(Sir) Gawain

262
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Valet who helped Phileas Fogg go “Around the World in 80 Days”

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Passepartout

263
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mr. Murdstone is the stepfather of this Dickensian hero

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David Copperfield

264
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Among this author’s title characters are Dombey & Son, Barnaby Rudge, & Martin Chuzzlewit

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Dickens

265
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The band of outlaws in Glen Doone adopted a girl they captured & named her this

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Lorna

266
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$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| First name of the girl jockey Elizabeth Taylor played in 1944 film

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Velvet

267
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$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Egbert, a cowpuncher from Red Gap, Washington won this valet in a poker game

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Ruggles

268
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$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Paul Baumer is the German narrator of this Remarqueable tale

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All Quiet on the Western Front (All’s Quiet on the Western Front accepted)

269
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$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Novel which features the Joad family, Dust Bowl farmers who move to California

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Grapes of Wrath

270
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$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| During his 7 voyages, he was sold into slavery, met the cyclops, & got stuck on 2 desert islands

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Sinbad

271
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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Wilfred, son of Cedric the Saxon, is the title character of this Sir Walter Scott novel

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Ivanhoe

272
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In 1925 Anita Loos novel, hair color of Lorelei Lee

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blonde

273
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She helped grandfather to tend goats & Klara, an invalid child, to walk

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Heidi

274
Q

$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Longfellow’s Indian heroine whose name means “laughing water”

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Minnehaha

275
Q

$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Margaret Mitchell originally called this character “Pansy”

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Scarlett O’Hara

276
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$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The grandmother of this Hans Christian Andersen heroine wore a dozen oysters on her tail

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The Little Mermaid

277
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$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rebecca Randall is better known by the title of this Kate Douglas Wiggin children’s book

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

278
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$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this was Tom Snout’s occupation tho you may not give a “dam”

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tinker

279
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$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mother of Bonnie Blue, she ran a sawmill after the Civil War

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Scarlett O’Hara

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