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message 1: by Maria (last edited Dec 25, 2022 03:40PM) (new)

Maria | 38 comments A: Adrian in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

B: Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

C: Czentovics in Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

D: David Copperfield in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

E: Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

F: Farmata in So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

G: Gottfried in Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

H: Hans in Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

I: Israel Hands in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

J: Julia Czechenyi in The 39 Steps by John Buchan

K: Katz in The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

L: Liza in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

M: Marie in The Stranger by Albert Camus

N: Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

O: Oz, Amos in A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

P: Pierre Menard (the author of Don Quixote) in Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

Q: Quatermain, Allan in King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

R: Radley, Arthur (Boo) in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

S: Saposcat in Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

T: Touya in The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

U: Uncle Tom in The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín

V: Vane, Sybil in The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

W: Walt aka Walter Claireborne Rawley in Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster

X: Xi Qiaomu in Contact by Carl Sagan

Y: Ymer, Ago in Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare

Z: Zenobia in The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne


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Maria | 38 comments W - Walt aka Walter Claireborne Rawley in Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster


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Maria | 38 comments C- Czentovics in Chess Story by Stefan Zweig


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Maria | 38 comments F - Farmata in So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ


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Maria | 38 comments S: Saposcat in Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett


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Maria | 38 comments J: Julia Czechenyi in The 39 Steps by John Buchan


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Maria | 38 comments M: Marie in The Stranger by Albert Camus


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Maria | 38 comments P: Pierre Menard (the author of Don Quixote) in Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges


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message 14: by Maria (last edited Jul 29, 2022 05:46PM) (new)

Maria | 38 comments A: Adrian in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

NOTE: I desided to move Allan Quatermain from A to Q. I hope that's not cheating :)


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Sean (fordest) | 988 comments Mod
Maria wrote: "A: Adrian in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

NOTE: I desided to move Allan Quatermain from A to Q. I hope that's not cheating :)"


Not cheating. I am always on the lookout for ways to move things around so that I can complete the challenge.


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Maria | 38 comments R: Radley, Arthur (Boo) in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee


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Maria | 38 comments I: Israel Hands in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson


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Maria | 38 comments Finally, the last one!

X: Xi Qiaomu in Contact by Carl Sagan


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