Characters
From BookJive
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no image | 'Nonnie' Hopkins She is Gilly's maternal grandmother and Courtney's mother. She is not aware of Gilly's existence until Courtney writes to her, asking her to assume custody. Her other child, Chadwell, died while serving in the Vietnam War. |
no image | (Stony) Durdles A stonemason. He knows more than anyone else about the Cloisterham Cathedral cemetery. |
no image | Aarfy Captain 'Aarfy' Aardvaark is a fictional character in the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Aarfy is the navigator in Yossarian's B-25, noted for being oblivious to incoming flak, for getting lost on missions, and his omnipresent pipe. His nickname 'Aarfy' is an abbreviation of his surname, Aardvaark. |
no image | Aaron Wassertrum |
no image | Aaron Winthrop The son of Dolly who marries Eppie at the end of the novel. |
no image | Abbé Busoni The persona that Edmond puts forth when he needs to be trusted because the name itself demands respect via religious authority. |
no image | Abbé Faria Italian priest and sage; befriends Edmond while both are prisoners in the Chateau d'If, and reveals the secret of Monte Cristo to Edmond. Becomes the surrogate father of Edmond and the figurative father of the Count of Monte Cristo. |
no image | Abel Magwitch |
no image | Abigail Salmon Wife of Jack, mother of Susie, Lindsey, and Buckley; Desires to be more than a mother after her daughter’s death; Abandons her family after her daughter’s death; Has a brief affair |
no image | Abiram White kidnapper of Inez de Certavallos-Middleton and murderer of his nephew Asa Bush. |
no image | Achaeans The Achaeans (in Greek Ἀχαιοί, Akhaioi) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad (used 598 times) and Odyssey. |
 | Achilles The leader of the Myrmidons and the principal Greek champion whose anger is one of the main elements of the story |
no image | Adah The other Price twin, Adah was stricken with hemiplegia at birth, giving her a noticeable limp. Although Adah is vocally silent through most of the book, she is extremely intelligent in her writing. She is well-versed in poetry — especially the poems of Emily Dickinson — and likes creating palindromes. She casts a cynical eye on her father's religious practices. |
no image | Adam Bede (character) The protagonist in the story. He is a carpenter who is fairly well educated for a peasant. |
no image | Adam Eddington Intelligent, principled and a bit naive, 16-year-old Adam Eddington is a biology major who has been interning at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the summers, until Old Doc Didymus sends him to work with Calvin O'Keefe instead. |
no image | Adam the First Adam the First is the old man (representing the flesh/carnality) who tries to persuade Faithful to leave his journey and come live with his 3 daughters: the Lust of the flesh, the Lust of the eyes, and the Pride of life. |
no image | Admiral Croft Good-natured, plainspoken tenant at Kellynch Hall and brother-in-law of Captain Wentworth. |
 | Aeneas Cousin of Hector and his principal lieutenant, son of Aphrodite, the only major Trojan figure to survive the war. Held by later tradition to be the forefather of the founders of Rome. |
 | Agamemnon King of Mycenae, supreme commander of the Achaean armies whose actions provoke the feud with Achilles; brother of King Menelaus. |
no image | Agenor A Trojan warrior who attempts to fight Achilles in Book 21. Agenor delays Achilles long enough for the Trojan army to flee inside Troy's walls. |
no image | Agnes Stokes She is a girl at Gilly's school. She comes from a troubled background herself, having been abandoned by both of her parents, and lives with her grandmother. She hangs around Gilly and tries to win her friendship. Gilly dislikes her, but uses her to help steal Mr. Randolph's money. |
no image | Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova Variously called Grushenka, Grusha, and Grushka, Agrafena Alexandrovna is the local Jezebel and has an uncanny charm among men. She was jilted by a Polish officer in her youth and came under the protection of a tyrannical miser. |
no image | Ahab Ahab is the tyrannical captain of the Pequod who is driven by a monomaniacal desire to kill Moby Dick, the whale that maimed him on his last whaling voyage. |
 | Aja Killian Aja Killian is the Traveler from Veelox. Aja was an orphan, raised in a group home that trained intelligent children to work to their full potential. She was adopted by Evangeline, one of the workers at the home, who she now calls her aunt and acolyte. She was then promoted to what is called a 'Senior Phader' on her territory. |
no image | Ajihad |
no image | Akela An Indian Wolf |
no image | Alan Blunt |
no image | Albert de Morcerf Son of Mercédès and the Count de Morcerf. Befriends Monte Cristo in Rome; viewed by Monte Cristo as the son that should have been his with Mercédès. At the end, he realizes his father's faults and, along with his mother, Mercédès, rejects him. |
 | Albus Dumbledore Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (born ca. 1840s), is a fictional character in the Harry Potter novel series by J.K. Rowling. Dumbledore in the series is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for most of the series, and is the leading character for most of the series in the fight against Voldemort. |
no image | Alder Alder is the Traveler from his home territory of Denduron. He appears in The Merchant of Death, The Rivers of Zadaa, The Pilgrims of Rayne, and Raven Rise. He is described as being over six feet tall, and not exceptionally handsome (Bobby claims that everything about him 'seemed too big'). |
no image | Alderman Cute A Justice of the Peace. |
no image | Aldophous Irwine The rector of Broxton and the confidante of Captain Donnithorne. |
no image | Alec Bings who sees through things. Like the other members of his family, he grows downwards from a fixed point in the air until he reaches the ground |
no image | Alex Burnet Frank’s daughter who is defending him in court in order to retain the rights to his cell line. Bounty hunters pursue her for her inherited cell line. |
no image | Alex Ford A Secret Service agent, Ford helps the group in the first book, The Camel Club, as they try to uncover a conspiracy that involves the kidnapping of President James H. Brennan, and a captured Muslim terrorist. |
 | Alex Rider (character) Alex Rider is the protagonist and title character of the popular Alex Rider series of novels by British author Anthony Horowitz. |
no image | Alexander Grigorievich Zametov Corrupt head clerk at the police station and friend to Razumikhin. |
no image | Alexandra Semionovna Filipp's wife |
no image | Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin Anna's husband |
no image | Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov Variously referred to as Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka, Alexei is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers at 20 years of age. He is proclaimed as the hero of the novel by the narrator in the opening chapter (as well as the author in his preface). |
no image | Alfred Inglethorp Emily's much younger new husband. |
no image | Alfred Yule Alfred Yule is a writer. He is a vehement foe of Clement Fadge, the editor who provided Milvain's first break. |
no image | Ali Baba's servant and inexplicit childhood friend. He was thought initially to be the father of Hassan. |
no image | Alice |
no image | Alice Munro Cora's younger, blond half-sister. She and Duncan Heyward fall in love and ultimately marry. Their grandson, Captain Duncan Uncas Middleton appears in The Prairie. |
no image | Alice Wilson George Wilson's sister. A pious old washerwoman who is also a herbalist and sick-nurse. |
no image | Alicia Risingham Niece of Earl Risingham and friend, confidant, and companion of Joanna Sedley. |
no image | Alphonse Frankenstein |
no image | Alyona Ivanovna Suspicious old pawnbroker who hoards money and is merciless to her patrons. She is Raskolnikov's intended target for murder. |
no image | Ama Clutch Ama Clutch is Galinda’s caretaker at Shiz. She is present throughout Galinda and Elphaba's time at Shiz. |
