This new edition of the Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters has been revised and expanded to bring it thoroughly up to date. Over 6,500 entries provide a guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English – from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter.

New features include concise biographies of the authors and essays covering such topics as ‘The Detective in Fiction’ and ‘The Characters of Charles Dickens’.

• Over 6,500 entries
• Comprehensive coverage from the characters of the classics to the main figures in popular genres
• Author/title index and full cross-referencing