Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters

by Larousse and Goring

Book Overview

A natural companion to the Larousse Dictionary of Writers, this reference is a guide to the literary characters created by the greatest writers of literature in English, including authors from New... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752300377
• ISBN13: 9780752300375
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book with a misleading title

Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters is an excellent book with over 6,500 entries, but it's covering literature written in English only. This should be evident from the title, shouldn't it?It seems that the dictionary covers all important English literary characters, and even much less important characters of the most famous English writers (e.g. more than 200 literary characters from W. Scott's opus alone). That's really fantastic (especially for English readers).But the publisher (Larousse) should know that the literature in English is not the only literature. Authors should either include the most important non-English literary characters (like Anna Karenina, for example) in this dictionary or give it a different, not misleading title. (Slovenian dictionary of literary characters is titled "Slovenski literarni junaki", i.e. "Slovenian literary characters", because in Slovenia we understand that we aren't alone in this world.)

Excellent book with a misleading title

Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters is an excellent book with over 6,500 entries, but it's covering literature written in English only. This should be evident from the title, shouldn't it?It seems that the dictionary covers all important English literary characters, and even much less important characters of the most famous British and American writers (e.g. more than 200 literary characters from W. Scott's opus alone). That's really fantastic (especially for English readers).But the publisher (Larousse) should bear in mind that literature in English is not the only literature. Authors should either include the most important non-English literary characters (like Anna Karenina, for example) in this dictionary or give it a different, not misleading title. (Slovenian dictionary of literary characters is titled "Slovenski literarni junaki", i.e. "Slovenian literary characters", because in Slovenia we understand that we aren't alone in this world.)