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Character. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.
| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | Long John Silver |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | The old man |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | Black Michael |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | Fix |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | Twala |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | Stapleton |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | Jefferson Hope |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | Dr. Grimesby Roylott |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | Godfrey Ablewhite |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | Count Fosco |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | Mr. Wickham |
| Persuasion | Romance | Mr Elliot |
| Emma | Romance | Mr. Elton |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | St. John Rivers |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | Count Dracula |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | The creature |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | Dr. Jekyll |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | Lord Henry Wotton |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | Heathcliff |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | Peter Quint |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | Morlocks |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | Martians |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | Dr. Kemp |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | Queen |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | Wicked Witch of the West |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | Mr. Archibald Craven |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | Chief Weasel |
| Great Expectations | Literary | Miss Havisham |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | Ebenezer Scrooge |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | Tom Buchanan |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | Kurtz |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | Ebenezer Balfour |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | Gérard de Villefort |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | Milady |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | von Brüning and Böhme (with Grimm) |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | Chauvelin |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | Gomez |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | Colonel Bishop |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | Lady Audley |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | The Orang-Outang |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | Flambeau |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | Grodman |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | Trueman Harwell |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | Walter Hornby |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | Inspector Mackenzie |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | Mr Vladimir |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | Mr. Willoughby |
| North and South | Romance | Mrs. Thornton |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | Sergeant Frank Troy |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | |
| The Sheik | Romance | Ibraheim Omair |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | Carmilla |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | Manfred |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | Erik |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | Helen Vaughan |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | John |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | Cthulhu |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | Moreau |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | Nature and the Earth itself |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | Tal Hajus |
| Herland | Science fiction | Terry O. Nicholson |
| Flatland | Science fiction | Pantocyclus |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | The Queen |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | The Plague |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | Red Queen |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | Miss Minchin |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | Shere Khan |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | Psammead |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | Circumstance and injustice |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | Goblin King |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | James Hook |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | King Gorice XII |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | none |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | Human cruelty and indifference |
| Middlemarch | Literary | Mr. Edward Casaubon |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | Alec d'Urberville |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | Sir William Bradshaw |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | Mr. Ramsay |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | Anna Karenina |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | Porfiry Petrovitch |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | Monsieur Lheureux |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | May Welland |
| Silas Marner | Literary | Godfrey Cass |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | The King and The Duke |
| Hamlet | Plays | Claudius |
| Macbeth | Plays | Lady Macbeth |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | Tybalt |
| Othello | Plays | Iago |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | Oberon |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | Malvolio |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | Mephistophilis |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | Lady Bracknell |
| A Doll's House | Plays | Torvald |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | Judge Brack |
| Pygmalion | Plays | Henry Higgins |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | Joseph Surface |
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