This new paperback edition of the Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters features over 6,500 entries, providing 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. Hundreds of new entries have been added, including characters from these authors and playwrights: Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Tracy Chevalier, J M Coetzee, Jim Crace, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Frayn, Charles Frazier, Mark Haddon, A L Kennedy, Yann Martel, Steven Millhauser, Toni Morrison, Allison Pearson, D B C Pierre, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Tom Stoppard, Donna Tartt and Irvine Welsh