5 Volumes 2,483 Pages 20,000 Characters     From 3,300+     Works Guides for     Difficult Names Pronunciation Key Complete List of Titles Author Index with Title Listings Alphabetical Character Index Articles Desire Under the Elms Kristin Lavransdatter The Raj Quartet Other Elements Character Index Author Index Title Index Table of Contents    Click here to view an    Acrobat descriptive flier    about this title and    closely-related titles. If you need help with products and ordering, setting up a new account or working with this website, call or email us: Phone: (800) 221-1592 Email: csr@salempress.com More useful than ever, this consolidated, expanded Cyclopedia is the place to turn when looking for information about a character from imaginative literature of the western world. Reference Reviews   Gale Group

Editor: A. J. Sobczak and Frank N. Magill; Associate Editor, Janet Long ISBN: 978-0-89356-438-4 List Price: $368 February 1998 · 5 volumes · 2,483 pages · 8"x10" Outstanding Academic Titles, Choice Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Rev. Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,294 important works of literature. It includes the major characters from over 1,400 titles appearing in Masterplots, Revised Second Edition (1996). This comprehensive edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1963) and Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters that appeared in more recent works of Masterplots II published through 1995. This revised work includes 574 articles on new titles and 84 rewritten articles, with all-new title, author, and character indexes. This series offers readers the opportunity to become familiar with both famous and less well-known personalities from classic fiction. Scope and Coverage Designed to complement the individual titles in Masterplots and Masterplots II, these character descriptions can be used alone to begin researching character development and motivation in a novel. They also can be used with the articles appearing in Masterplots, Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors and Cyclopedia of Literary Places as a starting place for analyzing an epic play or novel and its author's writing style and technique. Organization and Format Articles are arranged alphabetically by book title and begin with ready-reference top matter information about the author and the book, including each book's title, foreign title if originally published in a language other than English, author's name with birth and death years, date of first publication, genre, locale, time of action, and plot type. The characters are arranged by order of importance within each article. The central or key characters receive lengthy descriptions; supporting and minor figures receive less extensive treatment. Books by a given author that commonly are studied together are treated in a single article, allowing the user to study character development across the books. Heavily cross-referenced indexes allow easy access to all title covered. Pronunciation guides are provided for character names that are most likely to be mispronounced. Three indexes are found at the back of volume 5, and are designed to help the user more readily access the text. First, there is a complete list of titles, including cross-references. Second, an Author Index lists titles by author; again cross-references are included. Finally, the alphabetical Character Index lists the more than 20,000 characters described, using last names if those appear in the original works, or using first names or descriptions. The Character Index is a valuable aid in locating the author and work or works with which a particular character is associated.

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