Novel Advice, Practical Wisdom for Your Favorite Literary Characters by Jay Bushman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Introduction Chapter 1: Young Love

Ophelia, Hamlet Ishmael, Moby-Dick Emma Woodhouse, Emma Orpheus, Metamorphoses Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind Jane Porter, Tarzan of the Apes Werther, The Sorrows of Young Werther Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights

Chapter 2: Navigating Friendships

Salieri, Amadeus Dr. John Watson, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream D’Artagnan, The Three Musketeers Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby Mrs. Collins (née Charlotte Lucas), Pride and Prejudice Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley Boo Radley, To Kill a Mockingbird Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

Chapter 3: Receiving an Education

Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye Jude Fawley, Jude the Obscure Laura Ingalls, On the Banks of Plum Creek Candide, Candide Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury Henry Anthony Wilcox, “The Call of Cthulhu”

Chapter 4: Body, Mind, and Spirit

Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis Jane, The Yellow Wallpaper Prince Prospero, “The Masque of the Red Death” Cassandra, The Aeneid Captain Ahab, Moby-Dick Louisa Musgrove, Persuasion Patrick Bateman, American Psycho Beth March, Little Women

Chapter 5: Bonds of Matrimony

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth The Second Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina Menelaus, The Odyssey Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway Charlotte Haze, Lolita Claudius, Hamlet

Chapter 6: The Way We Work

Amy March, Little Women Dr. Henry Jekyll, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Bigger Thomas, Native Son Sancho Panza, Don Quixote Dorothea Brooke, Middlemarch Esther Greenwood, The Bell Jar Jonathan Harker, Dracula The Narrator, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

Chapter 7: Money Matters

Mathilde Loisel, “The Necklace” Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment Lily Bart, The House of Mirth Shylock, The Merchant of Venice Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice Long John Silver, Treasure Island Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary

Chapter 8: Community and Society

Hester Prynne, The Scarlet Letter George Amberson Minafer, The Magnificent Ambersons Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey Edmond Dantès, The Count of Monte Cristo Edward Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Margaret Schlegel, Howards End Inspector Javert, Les Misérables Scheherazade, A Thousand and One Nights

Chapter 9: Endings

Okonkwo, Things Fall Apart Kate Trask, East of Eden Captain Yossarian, Catch-22 Rapunzel, Grimm’s Fairy Tales Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities Hamlet, Hamlet Emily Webb, Our Town Persephone, Greek Mythology

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