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A character guide
Dracula
Bram Stoker
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A character guide
Du côté de chez Swann
Marcel Proust
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A character guide
Emma
Jane Austen
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A character guide
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
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A character guide
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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A character guide
Germinal
Émile Zola
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A character guide
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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A character guide
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift
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A character guide
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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A character guide
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding
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