Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Geoffrey Chaucer’s – The Wife of Bath – 1478
Chapter 2. Pearl Poet’s – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – c.1340-1400
Chapter 3. William Shakespeare’s – Prospero – 1610-1611
Chapter 4. John Bunyan’s – Christian – 1678
Chapter 5. Daniel Defoe’s – Robinson Crusoe – 1719
Chapter 6. Samuel Richardson’s – Clarissa – 1748
Chapter 7. Henry Fielding’s – Tom Jones — 1749
Chapter 8. Laurence Sterne’s – Tristram Shandy – 1759-1767
Chapter 9. Walter Scott’s – Ivanhoe – 1820
Chapter 10. James Fenimore Cooper’s – Hawk-eye – 1826
Chapter 11. Herman Melville’s – Captain Ahab – 1851
Chapter 12. Wilkie Collins’s – Walter Hartwright — 1859
Chapter 13. George Eliot’s – Maggie Tulliver – 1860
Chapter 14. Jules Verne’s – Phileas Fogg and Passepartout – 1873
Chapter 15. Thomas Hardy’s – Bathsheba Everdene – 1874
Chapter 16. Mark Twain’s – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – 1876 / 1884
Chapter 17. Robert Louis Stevenson’s – Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver – 1883
Chapter 18. Oscar Wilde’s – Dorian Gray – 1890
Chapter 19. Stephen Crane’s – Henry Fleming — 1895
Chapter 20. H. G. Wells’s — War of the Worlds Narrator — 1897
Chapter 21. Henry James’s – The Governess – 1898
Chapter 22. Jack London’s – Buck – 1903
Chapter 23. P. G. Wodehouse’s – Jeeves – 1915
Chapter 24. James Joyce’s – Leopold Bloom – 1922
Chapter 25. E. M. Forster’s – Aziz – 1924
Chapter 26. Agatha Christie’s – Miss Jane Marple – 1932
Chapter 27. William Faulkner’s – Thomas Sutpen – 1936
Chapter 28. John Steinbeck’s – Kino and Juana – 1947
Chapter 29. Ralph Ellison’s – Invisible Man – 1952
Chapter 30. Ray Bradbury’s – Guy Montag – 1953
Chapter 31. William Golding’s – Piggy – 1954
Chapter 32. Patrick White’s – Voss – 1957
Chapter 33. Jack Kerouac’s – Sal Paradise – 1957
Chapter 34. Joseph Heller’s – Captain John Yossarian – 1961
Chapter 35. Sylvia Plath’s – Esther Greenwood – 1963
Chapter 36. Patrick O’Brian’s – Jack Aubrey – 1969
Chapter 37. Kurt Vonnegut’s – Billy Pilgrim – 1969
Chapter 38. C. K. Stead’s – Smith – 1971
Chapter 39. Thomas Pynchon’s – Lt. Tyrone Slothrop – 1973
Chapter 40. E. L. Doctorow’s – Harry Houdini – 1975
Chapter 41. John Irving’s – T. S. Garp – 1978
Chapter 42. Margaret Atwood’s – Offred – 1985
Chapter 43. Don DeLillo’s – Jack Gladney – 1985
Chapter 44. Witi Ihimaera’s – Kahu Apirana – 1987
Chapter 45. Toni Morrison’s – Sethe – 1987
Chapter 46. Alan Duff’s – Jake – 1994
Chapter 47. Richard Ford’s – Frank Bascombe – 1996
Chapter 48. Barabara Kingsolver’s – Orleanna Price – 1998
Chapter 49. Johnathan Franzen’s – Alfred Lambert – 2001
Chapter 50. Patricia Grace’s – Tu – 2005
Chapter 51. Cormac McCarthy’s – Father and Son – 2006
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Index
