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- Genre: Novel / Satire / Parable
- Title: 1984
- Point of view: Third-Person Limited
- Setting: London in the year 1984
- Character: Winston Smith. Description: The protagonist of the novel, a 39-year-old Outer Party functionary who privately rebels against the Party's totalitarian rule. Frail, intellectual, and fatal... | 3,263 |
- Genre: realism, regionalism, micro-fiction
- Title: 55 Miles to the Gas Pump
- Point of view: omniscient 3rd person
- Setting: a ranch in rural Wyoming
- Character: Rancher Croom. Description: Rancher Croom is Mrs. Croom's husband, a cattleman on a rural Wyoming farm who is described initially as a "warm-handed, quic... | 4,222 |
- Genre: Short story/Coming of Age
- Title: A&P
- Point of view: First-person narrator (Sammy)
- Setting: An A&P grocery store in a town somewhere north of Boston
- Character: Sammy. Description: Sammy, the narrator of the story, sarcastically observes the customers of A&P from his standpoint behind the cash registers.... | 3,162 |
- Genre: Social Commentary, Ghost Story
- Title: A Christmas Carol
- Point of view: A third-person, omniscient narrator
- Setting: London
- Character: Ebenezer Scrooge. Description: The quintessential miser, he is cruel-hearted, underpays his clerk Bob Cratchit, and says "Humbug!" to the Christmas festivities that brin... | 4,147 |
- Genre: Short story, modernism
- Title: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A clean, well-lighted café
- Character: Old Waiter. Description: The old waiter, the story's protagonist, is the older of two waiters at a clean, well-lighted café. Hemingway depicts the old waiter as kind, dig... | 3,876 |
- Genre: Science-fiction
- Title: A Clockwork Orange
- Point of view: First person narrator (Alex)
- Setting: Dystopian England in the not-so-distant future
- Character: Alex. Description: The narrator and protagonist of A Clockwork Orange. Alex is a smart "nadsat" [teen] boy with a penchant for what he calls "ultra-vi... | 3,473 |
- Genre: Science Fiction, Satire
- Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Sixth-century Britain, during the reign of the legendary King Arthur
- Character: Hank Morgan. Description: Hank Morgan is the Connecticut Yankee who finds himself thrown into sixth-century Bri... | 7,549 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Day’s Wait
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: An American family home
- Character: The Father. Description: The father is the story's unnamed narrator. He treats his nine-year-old son with affection and tenderness, encouraging him to rest and allow his body to recover rather than s... | 5,031 |
- Genre: Fiction; short story; literary realism
- Title: A Family Supper
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Kamakura, Japan
- Character: Narrator. Description: The narrator of "A Family Supper," who remains unnamed, is a young Japanese man who is living in America when he learns that his mother has died by eating... | 6,222 |
- Genre: War Novel
- Title: A Farewell to Arms
- Point of view: First-person; (Frederic Henry is the narrator.)
- Setting: Italy and Switzerland during World War I, 1916–1918
- Character: Lieutenant Frederic Henry. Description: An American who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps before the United States joins th... | 2,386 |
- Genre: Southern Gothic Short Story
- Title: A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Point of view: Third-person, mostly following the Grandmother
- Setting: Twentieth Century Rural South
- Character: The Grandmother. Description: The Grandmother is an elderly Southern lady, and Bailey's mother. She is a naïve woman, despite her... | 4,891 |
- Genre: Micro-fiction, modernism, "ghost story"
- Title: A Haunted House
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: A large, old house in the South Downs
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The narrator, who is given no name or gender, is one half of the living couple who now live in the "haunted house." The narrato... | 4,756 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Horseman in the Sky
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Near a cliff's edge in western Virginia during the American Civil War
- Character: Carter Druse. Description: The protagonist of the story, Carter Druse is a private in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Carter Altho... | 4,914 |
- Genre: Novel, Historical Fiction
- Title: A Hundred Flowers
- Point of view: Third-person limited, rotating through multiple characters' perspectives
- Setting: Guangzhou, a city in southern China, during the Hundred Flowers and Great Leap Forward campaigns
- Character: Wei Lee. Description:
- Character: Kai Ying Le... | 1,331 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Hunger Artist
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: A nondescript "Europe", probably in the 19th century
- Character: The Hunger Artist. Description: The unnamed protagonist of the story, the hunger artist is a man with one sole purpose in life: to starve. He believes this ... | 5,283 |
- Genre: Feminist Short Story
- Title: A Jury of Her Peers
- Point of view:
- Setting: The Wrights' farmhouse, Dickinson County, Iowa
- Character: Lewis Hale. Description: A middle-aged local farmer who visited the Wrights' home and discovered Minnie calmly pleating her apron as her husband lay murdered in his bed. He... | 3,817 |
- Genre: Genre:Novel of education
- Title: A Lesson Before Dying
- Point of view: Point of View:First person
- Setting: Setting:1940s Louisiana
- Character: Grant Wiggins. Description: The local schoolteacher, narrator, and the protagonist of A Lesson Before Dying, Grant Wiggins is initially reluctant when Miss Emma Gl... | 9,133 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Little Cloud
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Thomas Chandler / Little Chandler. Description: Thomas Chandler is the main character of the story. He is Annie's husband and an old friend of Ignatius Gallaher. He is nicknamed "Little Chandler" because o... | 7,361 |
- Genre: Historical fiction (part of the book is based on the true story of Salva Dun, but Park emphasizes that the book has been fictionalized in parts)
- Title: A Long Walk to Water
- Point of view: Third person limited; the book cuts back and forth between the perspectives of the two main characters, Salva and Nya
-... | 5,385 |
- Genre: Short Story, Southern Gothic, Realism
- Title: A Memory
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: A small town in Mississippi
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The narrator is a girl who is most likely in her early teens. A contemplative, observant person, she has been taking painting lessons and is in th... | 3,848 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Mother
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Mrs Kearney. Description: Mrs Kearney is a stubborn, upper-class, well-educated woman who lives in Dublin, Ireland. She is Mr Kearney's wife and Kathleen Kearney's mother. Her wealth has made her life... | 7,844 |
- Genre: Short Story, Realist, Impressionist, Absurdist
- Title: A Mystery of Heroism
- Point of view: Third person, free indirect discourse
- Setting: an unnamed battle in an unnamed war
- Character: Fred Collins. Description: Collins is an infantryman in an unnamed war. As an ongoing battle rages, he watches from saf... | 5,104 |
- Genre: Short Story, Feminist Writing
- Title: A New England Nun
- Point of view: Omniscient
- Setting: Rural New England
- Character: Louisa Ellis. Description: Louisa Ellis, the protagonist of "A New England Nun," is a woman who lives alone. She is engaged to Joe Dagget, and has been for fifteen years, although he w... | 3,630 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Painful Case
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Mr. James Duffy. Description: Mr. James Duffy is the story's protagonist, a harsh and somewhat pessimistic middle-aged man. Duffy lives alone on the outskirts of Dublin, and he lives a very regimented life... | 6,181 |
- Genre: Short story, realism, modern feminist literature
- Title: A Pair of Silk Stockings
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: An unnamed town or city (one big enough to contain a large department store and a theater), probably somewhere in Louisiana, where Chopin set many of her stories.
- Character: Mrs. Sommer... | 7,882 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Realism
- Title: A Passage to India
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Chandrapore, India and Mau, India
- Character: Dr. Aziz. Description: A young Muslim doctor in Chandrapore who is a widower with three children. Aziz is skilled at his job but his ... | 4,342 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Perfect Day for Bananafish
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A resort on the coast of Florida in 1948
- Character: Seymour Glass. Description: The protagonist of the story, Seymour Glass is Muriel's husband who has recently returned from fighting in World War II and has been strug... | 8,937 |
- Genre: Kunstlerroman, a narrative of an artist's youth and maturation.
- Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Point of view: Third-person limited omniscient.
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland, in the late 19th century.
- Character: Stephen Dedalus. Description: An intelligent, sensitive, anxious, and ill-tempere... | 3,345 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Real Durwan
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Bengal, India
- Character: Boori Ma. Description: Boori Ma, the story's protagonist, is a 64-year-old Bengali woman who has been a refugee since Partition in 1947. As a durwan, or "doorkeeper," it is her job to clean the apartment buil... | 6,180 |
- Genre: Short story, local color literature
- Title: A Retrieved Reformation
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Arkansas
- Character: Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer. Description: The protagonist of "A Retrieved Reformation," Jimmy is a safecracker and thief living in the American Midwest in the earl... | 7,722 |
- Genre: Novella, Autobiographical Fiction
- Title: A River Runs Through It
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Montana
- Character: Norman Maclean. Description: The narrator of the novella, Norman lives in Wolf Creek, Montana with his wife, Jessie, and her family. Norman is fiercely loyal to, but also competitive... | 4,810 |
- Genre: Novel, romance.
- Title: A Room with a View
- Point of view:
- Setting: Florence, Italy; England.
- Character: Lucy Honeychurch. Description: Lucy begins the novel as a young, somewhat naïve British woman abroad in Italy. She is under the care of her older cousin Charlotte, but eager to break out on her own a... | 7,655 |
- Genre: Southern Gothic
- Title: A Rose for Emily
- Point of view: First-person plural ("we") limited
- Setting: The fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, located in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, where many of Faulkner's works are set
- Character: Miss Emily Grierson. Description: A proud woman born to a hig... | 4,918 |
- Genre: Detective Fiction
- Title: A Scandal in Bohemia
- Point of view: First person limited; perspective of John Watson, who chronicles Holmes's adventures
- Setting: London, Victorian Era
- Character: Sherlock Holmes. Description: Sherlock Holmes is a private detective who has been contracted by Wilhelm von Ormstei... | 7,139 |
- Genre: Novel, Satire, Sentimental Fiction, Travelogue
- Title: A Sentimental Journey
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: France
- Character: Yorick (The Narrator). Description: Yorick, the protagonist and narrator, is an English priest. He is sentimental, humorous, and internally contradictory: both prudish and ... | 6,246 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Small, Good Thing
- Point of view: Third-Person
- Setting: Mid-20th-century U.S.
- Character: Ann Weiss. Description: Ann, Howard's wife, is a 33-year-old mother to an eight-year-old boy, Scotty. At the beginning of the story, Ann is a cheerful woman who seems fulfilled by motherhood and... | 7,658 |
- Genre: Science fiction
- Title: A Sound of Thunder
- Point of view: Third person limited
- Setting: The U.S. in the year 2055, and North America or an equivalent landmass in 60 million BC
- Character: Mr. Eckels. Description: The protagonist of "A Sound of Thunder," Eckels is a hunter who enjoys exotic safaris and de... | 5,914 |
- Genre: detective fiction, crime fiction, serial fiction
- Title: A Study in Scarlet
- Point of view: first person; third person omniscient
- Setting: late 19th century London, American "wild west"
- Character: Sherlock Holmes. Description: The protagonist of the story, a consulting detective to the London police forc... | 6,882 |
- Genre: Historical novel
- Title: A Tale of Two Cities
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: London and Paris
- Character: Charles Darnay (a.k.a. Charles Evrémonde). Description: Renouncing the terrible sins of his family, the Evrémondes, Charles abandons his position in the French aristocracy to make hi... | 4,191 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Temporary Matter
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts
- Character: Shukumar. Description: Shukumar is a 35-year-old doctoral student. Until somewhat recently, he'd been researching the agrarian revolts in India. Six months before the story takes place, Shukumar ... | 5,763 |
- Genre: Domestic realism, American novel
- Title: A Thousand Acres
- Point of view: Point of View:First person (Ginny)
- Setting: Setting:Zebulon Country (Midwestern United States)
- Character: Ginny Cook Smith. Description: The protagonist and narrator of the novel, daughter of Larry Cook and wife of Tyler Smith. Gin... | 7,255 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Point of view: The story is told in the third person, alternating between Laila's and Mariam's point of view—the section and chapter divisions specify which one. The narrator never deviates from the perspective of each woman, but at times provides foreshadowing hints t... | 6,245 |
- Genre: Short Story, Asian American Fiction
- Title: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A Midwest college town
- Character: Mr. Shi. Description: Mr. Shi is, according to himself, a retired rocket scientist. He lives in China, but is visiting his daughter in the United States to ... | 3,761 |
- Genre: Short Fiction / Magic Realism
- Title: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: A small, nondescript town on the coast of South America
- Character: The Old Man (the Angel). Description: The protagonist of the story, the angel is an old, disheveled man with enormou... | 5,885 |
- Genre: Literary Fiction, Contemporary Novel
- Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Point of view: A blend of first, second, third, and other non-traditional points of view
- Setting: Most of the stories take place in and around New York City, although some stories are set in California, Italy, and Kenya
- Character: ... | 8,707 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Wagner Matinée
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts
- Character: Clark. Description: Clark, the narrator of the story, lives in a boarding-house on Newbury Street in Boston, though he was born in Vermont and spent a significant part of his youth living on Georgi... | 5,479 |
- Genre: Short Story, Horror
- Title: A Warning to the Curious
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Seaburgh, England (a fictionalized version of the real town Aldeburgh, England)
- Character: Paxton. Description: Paxton, the protagonist of "A Warning to the Curious," is a young man visiting Seaburgh. He meets the ... | 3,426 |
- Genre: Short Story, Romanticism mixed with Realism, Regional Fiction
- Title: A White Heron
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Rural Maine
- Character: Sylvia. Description: Sylvia, the protagonist of the story, is a 9-year-old girl living on a farm in the Maine woodlands with her grandmother, Mrs. Tilley. Befor... | 6,053 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: A Worn Path
- Point of view: Third person limited (Phoenix Jackson)
- Setting: From Old Natchez Trace to Natchez, Mississippi
- Character: Phoenix Jackson. Description: Phoenix, an aged and frail but also fierce woman (she was born into slavery in the pre-Civil-War South, though the story ... | 4,004 |
- Genre: Young adult fantasy
- Title: A Wrinkle in Time
- Point of view: Limited third-person narrative from Meg Murry's point of view
- Setting: Earth, the planet Camazotz, the universe
- Character: Meg Murry. Description: Meg is a thirteen-year-old girl who is a misfit at school, despite her unusual intelligence that... | 3,729 |
- Genre: Southern Gothic Novel
- Title: Absalom, Absalom!
- Point of view: The novel features numerous first-person and third-person points of view, shifting between different characters' stories of the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen.
- Setting: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (a fictional county Faulkner created, la... | 3,006 |
- Genre: Young Adult Novel, Historical Fiction, Bildungsroman
- Title: Across Five Aprils
- Point of view: Third Person Limited
- Setting: A small family farm in Southern Illinois during the American Civil War
- Character: Jethro Creighton. Description: Jethro Creighton is the youngest of Matt and Ellen's children. He ... | 6,816 |
- Genre: Short story, Realism
- Title: After the Race
- Point of view: Third person primarily limited to Jimmy Doyle's consciousness, although there are instances when this third person narrator is omniscient and describes other characters' inner thoughts and feelings as well.
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Ji... | 8,024 |
- Genre: Short Story, Mystery
- Title: After Twenty Years
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: New York City
- Character: Jimmy Wells. Description: Jimmy Wells is a police officer and Bob's best friend from childhood. While Bob decided to move out West to pursue his fortune, Jimmy chose instead to remain in New Yor... | 2,037 |
- Genre: Middle Grade Novel, Historical Fiction
- Title: Al Capone Does My Shirts
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Alcatraz Island, 1935
- Character: Moose Flanagan. Description:
- Character: Natalie Flanagan. Description:
- Character: Mom/Helen Flanagan. Description:
- Character: Dad/Cam Flanagan. Descripti... | 2,420 |
- Genre: Children's story, Fantasy, Literary Nonsense, Adventure
- Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Point of view: A third-person narrator follows Alice through Wonderland, but also occasionally dips into the first person, when describing her thoughts, and also follows her sister's thoughts in the final chapte... | 4,406 |
- Genre: War novel
- Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: France and Germany during World War I
- Character: Paul Bäumer. Description: The narrator and protagonist of the novel. Paul and a number of friends enlist in the army at the onset of World War I after being inspired (an... | 3,268 |
- Genre: Science fiction
- Title: All Summer in a Day
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A classroom on the planet Venus
- Character: Margot. Description: Margot, the protagonist of "All Summer in a Day," is a nine-year-old girl who moved from Ohio to the planet Venus when she was four years old. Margot longs int... | 5,045 |
- Genre: Political novel; "Great American novel"; American modernism
- Title: All The King's Men
- Point of view: first-person (told from the perspective of Jack Burden)
- Setting: Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s
- Character: Willie "The Boss" Stark. Description: The novel's protagonist (along with Jack Burden, the na... | 7,042 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: All the Pretty Horses
- Point of view: Third-person limited omniscient
- Setting: Texas and Mexico
- Character: John Grady Cole. Description: The protagonist of the book, John Grady Cole is a sixteen-year-old from San Angelo, Texas, who enjoys working on his family's ranch when he's not in schoo... | 6,940 |
- Genre: Novel, Thriller, Migrant Literature
- Title: American Dirt
- Point of view: Third-Person Omniscient
- Setting: Mexico, Arizona, Maryland
- Character: Lydia. Description:
- Character: Luca. Description:
- Character: Javier. Description:
- Character: Soledad. Description:
- Character: Rebeca. Description:
-... | 2,626 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: American Psycho
- Point of view: First-Person
- Setting: New York City, the late 1980s
- Character: Patrick Bateman. Description: Patrick Bateman is the novel's protagonist and narrator. He is a 27-year-old Harvard graduate who now lives in New York City and works on Wall Street as an investment... | 7,749 |
- Genre: Fiction
- Title: Americanah
- Point of view: Third person limited, following Ifemelu and Obinze
- Setting: Nigeria, America, England
- Character: Ifemelu. Description: The novel's main protagonist, an intelligent, stubborn, outspoken Nigerian woman who moves to America to attend university. She has difficulty ... | 3,753 |
- Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Children's Novel
- Title: Among the Hidden
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A farm and a nearby housing development, at an undetermined point in the future
- Character: Luke Garner. Description: The protagonist of the novel, Luke is a 12-year-old shadow child, or... | 6,760 |
- Genre: Middle-Grade Novel, Historical Fiction, Fictional Biography
- Title: Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Africa, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire in the 18th century
- Character: Amos Fortune (At-mun). Description: Amos was a real-life historical figure whose story is fictionalized ... | 4,715 |
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Title: An American Marriage
- Point of view: First person alternating among three characters
- Setting: Atlanta, Georgia and Eloe, Louisiana
- Character: Roy Hamilton Jr.. Description: Roy Othaniel Hamilton Jr. is the husband of Celestial Davenport, the son of Olive, and the adopted son of B... | 9,193 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: An Astrologer’s Day
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: An unnamed Indian village
- Character: The Astrologer. Description: The nameless protagonist of the story, the astrologer is not truly an astrologer, but a con man. He sets up shop each day beneath a tree in a market, wearing a p... | 5,760 |
- Genre: Realism, American Naturalism, Short Story
- Title: An Episode of War
- Point of view: Third-Person Omniscient.
- Setting: An anonymous Civil War battlefield.
- Character: The Lieutenant. Description: The lieutenant, the helpless and frail protagonist of Crane's story, suffers a gunshot wound then searches for ... | 7,467 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Title: An Imaginary Life
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: The Roman Empire and its outlying territories, around 1 C.E.
- Character: Ovid. Description: Ovid is a Roman poet whom Emperor Augustus exiles to Tomis for his indecent writing and rejection of national virtues. Ovid initial... | 8,907 |
- Genre: Short Story, Supernatural
- Title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient, though the stream-of-consciousness structure focuses largely on Farquhar's perceptions
- Setting: Alabama during an undefined point in the American Civil War
- Character: Peyton Farquhar. Description:... | 6,506 |
- Genre: Murder Mystery
- Title: And Then There Were None
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Soldier Island (in other editions it is also called Indian Island), off the coast of England
- Character: Justice Wargrave. Description: A recently retired Judge who quickly re-assumes this role on the island, ... | 4,321 |
- Genre: Short Story, Bildungsroman
- Title: ‘And Women Must Weep’
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Australia around the turn of the 20th century
- Character: Dolly. Description:
- Character: Auntie Cha. Description:
- Character: Miss Biddons. Description:
- Character: The Master of Ceremonies. Description: ... | 829 |
- Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
- Title: Annihilation
- Point of view: First person from the biologist's point of view
- Setting: Area X
- Character: The Biologist. Description: The biologist is the narrator and protagonist of Annihilation. She is a solitary and analytical person, often preferring to study her environm... | 8,608 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Another Country
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: 1960s in Greenwich Village, New York; Harlem, New York; and France
- Character: Rufus Scott. Description:
- Character: Vivaldo. Description:
- Character: Ida Scott. Description:
- Character: Leona. Description:
- Character: Richard. De... | 1,432 |
- Genre: Novella, Parable
- Title: Anthem
- Point of view: First-person narration by Equality 7-2521
- Setting: Unspecified collectivist dystopia, likely in the near future
- Character: Equality 7-2521. Description: The strong, intelligent, and creative protagonist of Anthem. Despite his exceptional talents and interes... | 4,007 |
- Genre: Short Fiction
- Title: Araby
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: The narrator. Description: The protagonist of the story, a young, imaginative boy who lives with his aunt and uncle. The narrator attends a Catholic school (as does essentially every other school age child in Ire... | 5,017 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: As I Lay Dying
- Point of view: The novel unfolds in fifty-nine sections, told from fifteen different narrators. The Bundren family members are the most common narrators, though Faulkner includes the points of view of people like Peabody the doctor, Tull the neighbor, Armstid the nearby farmer, ... | 5,341 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Ashes
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Australia
- Character: Chris. Description: Chris, the story's protagonist, is a 35-year-old man whose father recently died. He and his mother are on their way to a lake to scatter his father's ashes, and as they drive, Chris reflects on his fr... | 7,004 |
- Genre: Short Story, Literary Fiction, Frame Narrative
- Title: At Hiruharama
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: The rural area of Hiruharama, New Zealand
- Character: Tanner. Description: Tanner is the story's protagonist. He is an orphan in England who is sent to Auckland, New Zealand to be an apprentice, but ... | 3,403 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: At the ’Cadian Ball
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Late-19th century Louisiana
- Character: Calixta. Description: Calixta is a young, unmarried woman who is part of an Acadian community in Louisiana. She is the love interest of Bobinôt, an Acadian farmer, and also briefly enjoys ... | 6,825 |
- Genre: Historical fiction
- Title: Atonement
- Point of view: Limited 3rd person
- Setting: England and France; before, during, and after World War II
- Character: Briony Tallis. Description: Briony is the novel's protagonist. At the novel's outset, she is a precocious girl with a gift for writing. However she is als... | 5,334 |
- Genre: Novel, African-American Autobiography
- Title: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: The Eastern Seaboard of the United States (primarily Georgia, Connecticut, Florida, and New York) and European cities (Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin) from roughly the 1870s through ... | 8,902 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: B. Wordsworth
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Port of Spain, a town in the republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Character: The Boy (The Narrator). Description: The main protagonist of the story is a young boy, although it is clear that he has grown up since the events of the story. H... | 3,423 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Babylon Revisited
- Point of view: Third person limited
- Setting: Paris, 1930
- Character: Charlie Wales. Description: Charlie Wales, 35, is the protagonist of "Babylon Revisited," who has returned to Paris to regain custody of his daughter, Honoria. Charlie, Honoria, and Charlie's wife, ... | 7,901 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Bad Dreams
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A basement apartment in England
- Character: The Girl. Description: The girl lives in the basement apartment where the short story takes place with her mother, father, and younger brother. She loves to read—especially her favorite book, S... | 2,437 |
- Genre: Semi-Autobiographical; Historical Fiction; Scar Literature
- Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Point of view: First person, narrated by the unnamed narrator. There are short interludes narrated by the Little Seamstress, Luo, and the miller.
- Setting: Phoenix of the Sky mountain in Sichuan prov... | 7,619 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Barn Burning
- Point of view: Faulkner is famous for his stream-of-consciousness technique, which moves in and out of characters' minds in a way that can be both powerful and, at times, confusing. The third-person narration closely follows Sarty's own perspective, and we do often gain acce... | 5,000 |
- Genre: Short Story, work-place drama/comedy/tragedy.
- Title: Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Point of view: The story is told from the first-person voice of an unnamed narrator we know little about aside from the fact that he is an elderly lawyer, (and therefore he can be referred to as The Lawyer.)
- Setting: 1850's, New... | 6,243 |
- Genre: Historical novel
- Title: Beloved
- Point of view: Third person omniscient, with first-person passages from various points of view
- Setting: The outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio in the years just before (1855) and directly following (1873) the Civil War; flashbacks to the Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky
- Char... | 5,266 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Title: Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Milan, Italy during World War II
- Character: Pino Lella. Description: The novel's protagonist, Pino Lella starts out as a carefree Italian youth whose main concern is finding love. One day, while walking around Milan, h... | 6,618 |
- Genre: Gothic short story
- Title: Berenice
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Egaeus's ancestral home
- Character: Egaeus. Description: Egaeus is the narrator and main character of this story. As a narrator, Egaeus is unreliable due to his self-professed mental illness. Egaeus does not share his family's last ... | 5,945 |
- Genre: Short Story, Realism, Coming-of-Age
- Title: Bernice Bobs Her Hair
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting:
- Character: Bernice. Description: Marjorie's cousin and the story's titular protagonist. Bernice is an 18-year-old girl from an exceptionally wealthy family in New England. She regularly spends her sum... | 6,453 |
- Genre: Humorous Short Fiction
- Title: Best Seller
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: The Angler's Rest, a pub in an unspecified English village; London
- Character: Egbert Mulliner. Description: Egbert, the nephew of narrator Mr. Mulliner, is the story's protagonist. He is an assistant editor with a... | 5,207 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Novel
- Title: Between Shades of Gray
- Point of view: First person, from Lina's perspective
- Setting: Lithuania and Siberia
- Character: Lina Vilkas. Description: Lina Vilkas is fifteen years old when she and her family are deported from their comfortable middle class home in ... | 6,420 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Big Two-Hearted River
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: The wilderness outside of Seney, Michigan
- Character: Nick. Description: Nick, the protagonist of "Big Two Hearted River," is a recurring character in several Hemingway stories, many of which are set before, during, and after ... | 5,677 |
- Genre: Novella, historical fiction.
- Title: Billy Budd
- Point of view: The story is recounted in the first-person voice of an anonymous narrator, but one who often has the knowledge of an omniscient narrator.
- Setting: Summer of 1797, aboard the Indomitable at sea in the Mediterranean
- Character: Billy Budd. Desc... | 5,571 |
- Genre:
- Title: Bless Me, Ultima
- Point of view: First person limited, from Antonio's perspective
- Setting: Guadalupe, New Mexico
- Character: Antonio Juan Márez. Description: The protagonist and narrator of the novel, a young Chicano boy growing up in Guadalupe, New Mexico. Antonio (or Tony) has a great desire fo... | 2,777 |
- Genre: Literary fiction
- Title: Bliss
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A London townhouse in the early twentieth century.
- Character: Bertha Young. Description: The protagonist of the story, Bertha Young is a wealthy, middle class woman who is married to Harry and has a young daughter, Little B. Bertha is a... | 7,151 |
- Genre: Short story, science fiction
- Title: Bloodchild
- Point of view: First-person limited
- Setting: An unnamed alien world, in a protected territory called the Preserve
- Character: Gan. Description: Gan is the protagonist and narrator of the story. He is a Terran teenager who lives in the protected shelter of t... | 8,022 |
- Genre: Short story, Naturalism
- Title: Boule de Suif
- Point of view: Omniscient third-person
- Setting: A carriage traveling between Rouen and La Havre, and then an inn in Tôtes
- Character: Miss Elizabeth Rousset (Ball-of-Fat). Description: Miss Rousset, the story's protagonist, is a young woman who works as a pro... | 8,863 |
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