Alphabet Game with a twist - take 2

Last Posting:

Roy Rogers

Suzanne Somers : actress

Terry Thomas - comic actor

Ulrich Urban - German piano player

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Urban

Vivian Vance - Actress

Wolfgang Werner - Austrian theater dirrector

Xiomara Xibille - Colombian actress

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944512/

Yves Yersin - Swiss film producer

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Yersin

Skipped: "Z"

List in an alphabetical order of any known operas only and not musicals of any foreign languages other than English.

New Posting: A i d a

Still on the previous game:

(The list of "rules" listed on a previous thread of this game, but not copied across, gave 48 hours as the time that should elapse before skipping "difficult" letters such as "Q" or "X". )

Zoe Zaldana (otherwise known as Zoe Saldana)

Aida is not an English opera, it's Italian. Do translations count?

>10 jbbarret: : Shouldn't jbbarret ( with a Z from the unfinished previous game ) be setting the next game?

sure

sorry, i forgot to say that; I just found interesting to exclude anything but English and then starting Italian.

jbbarret go ahead, please

(I also found that statement about "any foreign languages other than English" somewhat ambiguous. e.g. was it only referring to musicals rather to both operas and musicals?)

over to jbb

O.K.

Alphabetic list of titles of poems, with the poet's name and the first one or two lines.

Poem to be written in English although the title need not be. e.g. Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" would qualify as the language of the poem is English.
Established, published poets, with listing(s) on LT only.
Poet need not be in alphabetical order.

To start:

Adeline

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Mystery of mysteries,
Faintly smiling Adeline,"

Ballad of the Long-legged Bait

Dylan Thomas

The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look

Cliche Came Out of its Cage

Clive Staples Lewis

You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House

The Dead

by Rupert Brooke

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,

Ephemera

W B Yeats

Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,

For Each Ecstatic Moment

Emily Dickinson

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ration
To the ecstasy.

Gunga Din

Rudyard Kipling

You may talk o' gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,

Hertha

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

I AM that which began;
Out of me the years roll;
Out of me God and man;
I am equal and whole;

I Am

John Clare

I am - yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes -
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,

Justine, You Love Me Not!

John Godfrey Saxe

I know, Justine, you speak me fair
As often as we meet;

The Kind Ghosts

Wilfred Owen

She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms
Out of the stillness of her palace wall,
Her wall of boys on boys and dooms on dooms.

Laughter

John Kendrick Bangs

WORRY stalked along the road,
Trouble sneaking after;

Musee des Beaux Arts

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

New Love, New Life

Amy Levy

She, who so long has lain
Stone-stiff with folded wings,
Within my heart again
The brown bird wakes and sings.

Otho

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou wert not, Cassius, and thou couldst not be,
"Last of the Romans," - though thy memory claim
From Brutus his own glory, and on thee
Rests the full splendour of his sacred fame;

A Plain Life

William Henry Davies

No idle gold -- since this fine sun, my friend,
Is no mean miser, but doth freely spend.

Quare Fatigasti

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Two years ago I was thinking
On the changes that years bring forth;
Now I stand where I then stood drinking
The gust and the salt sea froth;

Reason

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... Finally, what is Reason ? You have often asked me ; and this is my
answer :--

Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee,
Sublimates to a pure transparency,
That intercepts no light and adds no stain--
There Reason is, and then begins her reign !

A Subaltern's Love Song

John Betjeman

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,
What strenuous singles we played after tea,
We in the tournament - you against me!

Thy Faithfulness, Lord

John Wesley

Thy faithfulness, Lord, Each moment we find,
So true to thy word, So loving and kind!
Thy mercy so tender To all the lost race,
The vilest offender May turn and find grace.

Unknowing

Thomas Hardy

When, soul in soul reflected,
We breathed an æthered air,
When we neglected
All things elsewhere

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen

Walter Raleigh

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,
Within that temple where the vestal flame
Was wont to burn; and, passing by that way,
To see that buried dust of living fame,

Vitae Summa Brevis

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

-----------------------
Too late!

Woods In Winter

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When Winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the hawthorn blows the gale,
With solemn feet I tread the hill
That overbrows the lonely vale.

Xantippe

Amy Levy

What, have I waked again? I never thought
To see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey,
Dull, solemn stillness, ere the dawn has come.
The lamp burns low; low burns the lamp of life:

The Young British Soldier

Rudyard Kipling

When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.

The Zeroes-taught us-Phosphorous

Emily Dickinson

The Zeroes-taught us-Phosphorous-
We learned to like the Fire
By playing Glaciers-when a Boy-
And Tinder-guessed-by power

New game:

Alphabetical list of place names in songs.

No skipping of difficult letters (especially Z) for 48 hours.

To start:

On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - Judy Garland

Lullaby of Broadway - Ella Fitzgerald

Chicago - Frank Sinatra

Casablanca lyrics

I fell in love with you watching Casablanca
by Bertie Higgins

sorry, just missed a beat

There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn

El Paso - Marty Robbins

El Paso - Marty Robbins

Both at the same time there

Finchley Central -THE NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND

Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles

Hong Kong Blues - Hoagy Carmichael

The Girl from Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz

Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

(I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller

A Foggy Day in London Town - Fred Astaire

"Munich" - revival band Editors

New York, New York - from "On the Town" - Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin

Oklahoma - (from Oklahoma, the musical) - Howard Keel

Home in Pasadena -Al Jolson

1,2,3,4,5,6,7, Québec
Si j'avais les ailes d'un ange
Je partirais pour Québec
Si j'avais des lumières sur mon bike - Robert Charlebois

Flying Down to Rio - Fred Astaire

I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett

Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon

Union City Blue - Blondie

Moonlight In Vermont - Ella Fitzgerald

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra

Yettington

In "I've Been Everywhere", of which there were several versions (in the 1960s?) for different countries: in the U.K. version: Yettington

"I’ve been everywhere man I’ve been everywhere man
Crossed the borders, swear man, I breathed the mountain air man
Of travel I’ve had my share man I’ve been everywhere

I’ve been to:

Isle of Man Ickston Ladybank Abersford Westminster Layenham Sanderseed Steeple Mord
Pickingham Earlswood BakerStreet Portsmouth
Harleston Oldenham Pontefract Exemouth
Peterlee Titchfield Backwoth Yettington
Watford Verwood Fleetward O my Lord"

I know Yettington hasn't the glamour of Broadway, Casablanca, Ipanema, Pasadea, Rio, San Fransisco, Vermont, and all the rest, to say nothing of Xanadu, but I had to post it to make sure that somebody else gets "Z" and starts the next game. And NO SKIPPING, (you know who you are), there are answers.

Zoolander - Ben Stiller

Motion Picture's title (Comedy)

Looked at that link and can't see it as a song. And is it a place, like New York, London and Rio etc. are places? It's not in my atlas.

Komm, nimm mich mit nach Zürich. Ganz egal wo ich auch bin,
ich will dort immer wieder hin. - Markus Horvath

http://www.rhetorik.ch/Aktuell/08/09_17/index.html

Let's hunt down the last letter of an author's (sur)name:

A - Franz Kafka

(good one on Zurich - would never have thought it. Thanks for the link)

B - J.D. Robb ( Reunion in Death etc. )

C - Honoré de Balzac

D - Ford Madox Ford

E - Waris Dirie

E - John le Carre

simulpost just beat me to it

F - Richard Conniff

G - Adolf Muschg

H - Evelyn Waugh

I - Johanna Spyri -- Heidi

I - Giovanni Guareschi

just too late

never mind, Spyri was easier to spell than Don Camillo

J - Prakash A. Raj

K - John Steinbeck

L - Heinrich boll

M - Billy Graham

N - Thomas Mann

O - Jean Giono

P - Maria Augusta Trapp

Q - Peter Irniq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Irniq

not exactly a writer - but Inuit literature is rare anyway

R - Octavia E. Butler

S- Alexander Dumas

T - Stephen Vincent Benet

U - Costantino Porcu

V - Peter Ustinov

W - George Bernard Shaw

X - Tom Prideaux

Y - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Z - Daniel Suarez (he wrote daemon).

over to Psychotick to set the next sequence

Oh crud! Didn't think that one through!

So it may be too easy for you guys, but lets try author's middle names.

So to start, A is for Anthony, as in Piers Anthony Jacob.

B - John Boynton Priestley

C - William Cuthbert Faulkner

D - Beverly Daniel Tatum

E - Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)

F - Christian Friedrich Spittler (founder of Chrischona Missions)

G - Archibald Gordon Macdonell

H - David Herbert Lawrence

I - William Innes Homer

J - Archibald Joseph Cronin

K - Brian Keller Vaughan

K - Jerome Klapka Jerome

Ah ... beaten to it

L - Adam Lindsay Gordon (poet, does that count as author?)

M - William Makepeace Thackeray

N - Andrew Norman Wilson ( A. N. Wilson )

O - Edward Osborne Wilson

P - Alan Patrick Herbert

Q - Mary Quintard Steele ( Mary Q. Steele )

R - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

S - William Seward Burroughs

T - Booker Taliaferro Washington ( Booker T. Washington )

U - Robert Underwood Johnson

V - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

W - Henry Watson Fowler

X - Frank Xavier Braun (only appears to have one book, but there are not many X's)

Y - Robert Young Pelton

Z - David Zane Mairowitz

New game, hoping this topic hasn't been done before:

Rivers

Amazon

Barle

Cam

Dee

Exe

Forcados

Ganges

Hangang (Seoul)

Isle, Ivel and Indus

James - flows through Richmond, Virginia

Kander - Switzerland

The Kentucky

Crud, must have posted at much the same time as Paulstalder, so I'll do L.

The Leith, flows through Otago university.

Main - Germany

Nadder - Southern England

Orinoco - Venezuela

Pai - Burma / Thailand

Queue d’Âne - France

Rhine

Seine - Paris

Thames

Ullinger River - Australia

Volga - Russia

Wapiti River - Kanada

Xingu river - brazil

Yangtze - China

Zambezi - southern Africa

New game: Famous people who were assassinated or murdered.

Benigno Aquino (1983) - Philippine politician, whose widow Corazon later became president

Shahbaz Bhatti (2011) - Christian politician in Pakistan

Julius Caesar (44 BC)

Roque Dalton (1975) - El Salvador

Hrant Dink (2007) - Armenien

Kurt Eisner (1919) - minister-president of Bavaria; assassinated while on his way to Parliament to submit his resignation

Florianus (276) - Roman Emperor assassinated by his troops.

Giannatah (1863) - Mescalero-Apache, murdered after surrendering

Reinhard Heydrich (1942) - German general and Nazi official

Giuseppe Impastato (1978) - anti Mafia political activist

Tsuyoshi Inukai (1932) - prime minister of Japan

ETA: disregard, simulposted

Kamal Jumblatt (1977) - Lebanese statesman

John F. Kennedy (1963) - President of the U.S.A.
Robert F. Kennedy (1968) - Presidential candidate, U.S.A.

Abraham Lincoln (1865) - President of the U.S.A.

(that's got the ones that everyboby knows out of the way)

Jean-Paul Marat (1793) - political theorist and scientist - murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday - painted by Jacques-Louis David

Gabriel Narutowicz (1922) - president of Poland; assassinated in an art museum (by an artist) just five days after taking office

John Paul Oulu (2009) - Kenya "Wikileaks-related human rights activist"

Spencer Perceval (1812) - the only British prime minister to be assassinated

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1995) - Mexican-US singer, shot dead in Corpus Christi, Texas

George Lincoln Rockwell (1967) - founder of the American Nazi Party

Peter Stolypin (1911 September 14), Russian Prime Minister, killed in theater in Kiev

Leon Trotsky (1940) - Russian revolutionary, stabbed with an ice pick on Stalin's orders.

Umberto I (1900) - king of Italy, shot by an anarchist

Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) - Prime Minister of South Africa

(Do assassination attempts count?) -- This one resulted in permanent disability, though the victim eventtually went back into a more moderate politics.)

George C. Wallace
(D, AL, later A, AL, later D again) right-wing politician; shot in a parking lot in Maryland in 1972. The would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer was released in the past few years.

Malcolm X (1965) - black Muslim leader shot preparing to give a speech in Manhattan

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (2004) - former separatist president of Chechnya; killed by a bomb in Qatar

Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi (2001) - Israeli general

Next game:

Matters mathematical:

Algorithm

Bar Graphs

Cubic splines

division

Eigenvalues

factorial

Gaussian line

hyperbola

isosceles triangle

Jacobian matrix

Kronecker delta

logarithms

Maclaurin series

Napierian logarithm

-(e^(i*pi))

#200: very good. I had to think about that ONE.

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quotients

Recursion

sets

Taylor Series

trigonometry

#205 beat me to that one

unknown

Venn Diagrams

Weyl's criterion

X-Y axis

looks good for Z Roland, but #210 only completes X

still waiting for a Y entry

bard

yards..... thus completing math terms.

sorry for the interruption!

On 211--213

I can't imagine why I overlooked the Y-word.
(Maybe the presence of Y in "X-Y Axis" (210).

I'm deleting 213 and 214, as I guess they can be ignored now. Awaiting the Y-word.

we are back on track!

NEXT series:

Literary Parlance

Words and phrases used in writing about Literature.
No Authors. No Titles. Just terms.
e.g. Byronic, Shakespearean, Elizabethan, rhyme, workshop production, Agrarians, epic, (Words derived from proper names are okay, but leave actual proper names, and book titles, out of it.)

O.K. so what are you starting us off with? Is it Agrarians?

". . .starting us off with". . .

assonance

lol wow

bard

Chaucerian

Diarists

denouement

sorry, too late.

elegiac

flashback

genre

"- - Facetiae and Satire"*

*phrase that the Library Of Congress used to attach to many
subject headings. I think they stopped using it some years (or was it decades?) ago. I miss it.

is #229 a simulpost or two?

hyperbole

irony

Joycean

Kafkaesque

lyric

mystic

narrative

"Is 229 a simulpost or two?" (230)

The timing says that 229 missed being the entry for F (227) by one minute. Of course 227 wasn't yet on the screen when I wrote 229.

Ovidian

onomatopoeia*

*Anyone need the answer to a Trivia question: "What word has
exactly twice the number of vowels that it has of consonants?" ?

On 238 -- 239:

Again I missed by one minute

Proustian

quatrain

rondeau

satire

textual criticism

Utopian literature

Victorian Era

whodunnit

xenophanic

yarn

zeugma

NEXT Series: Counties (U. S. or the non-U. S. equivalent --shires, districts, etc.
ADD the STATe or other larger unitʻs name.
EXCLUDED: Counties that are better known as the name of a particular city: e.g. Honolulu, Denver, San Francisco

Accomack County, VA

Bucks County, PA
(No relation.)

County of Croajingolong, Victoria, Australia

Bezirk Dorneck, Solothurn (district of Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland)

otherwise known as 'Black-Boys-Country' Schwarzbubenland (to black means to smuggle)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorneck_%28Bezirk%29

Emalahleni Local Municipality, Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emalahleni_Local_Municipality,_Eastern_Cape

Forest County, Pennsylvania, USA

Gloucestershire, England

Herefordshire, England

Isle of Wight, county and island, England

Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA

Kent, south-east England

Lake County, FL

Mažoji Lietuva, in Lithuania

Nash County, North Carolina

Okcheon County (Okcheon-gun), North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Pisquatawas County, Maine

Queenstown Lakes District, New Zealand

Renfrewshire, Scotland

Staffordshire, England

Tarrant County, Texas (whose county seat is Fort Worth)

Union County, Georgia

Vosges, departement in France

Washington County- In Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia or Wisconsin - It is the most common name for US counties.

Xingu Prelature, Northern Brazil

A Google ref. says" U. S. counties begin with all letters of the alphabet EXCEPT X."

(Does everyone have a 'Z' ready to complete the sequence, and all waiting for someone to provide a 'Y' ?)

Yorkshire, England.

Zavala County, Texas

Celebrities FIRST names, alphabetical: (of alternate fields)

An A - Z of celebrtiesʻ first names; downʻt matter how
mundane or unusual. Nicknames or r eal names are ok. BUT make every other entry a DIFFERENT KIND of celebrity:

If A is from show business or entertainment; make B from
religion, politics, or military. THEN >BACK to show biz, ent., and so on, alternating. e.g. A: Arthur Godfrey, radio MC; >
B: Bob Dole, senator. > C: Carl Reiner, TV MC >
Diana, Princess of Wales . . . . .

(>278 rolandperkins:: Interestingly that touchstone for "Arthur Godfrey" links to "The Emperor Arthur by Godfrey Edmund Turton". Might be the basis for a new game.)

What are you starting us off with Roland? Is it Arthur G ?

". . .starting us off with. . ." (279)

AGNES Turnbull, novelist*
NEXT celeb category: any, except literature: B

*b t w, "celebrities" AT any time is ok; they donʻt have to be celebrities in Good standing today.

Bindon Blood, soldier, (General Sir Bindon Blood), 1842-1940, 80 years on the Army List, wrote his biography when he was still only 90. Descended from Colonel Blood who attempted to steal the crown jewels.

CHARLES Darwin, Scientist 1809- 1882

Dizzy Gillespie 1917 – 1993, jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer

Dale Alexander baseball; considered a very under-rated hitter,
American League, 1930s,
but had only a short, spectacular career.

Next: ANy category but sports: E

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist.

Franz Josef Strauss (6 September 1915 – 3 October 1988) a German politician

Gwynneth Paltrow

Henry Alfred Kissinger 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - warden of the Royal Mint; inventor of the dog-flap door for his dog Diamond; inventor of reeded edges on coins to prevent coin-clipping; occasionally dabbled in physics and mathematics

James Stuart, aka James II, monarch of England and Scotland, 1670s
a Catholic, he was ousted by his son-in-law, Protestant prince William of Orange, who ruled with Jamesʻs daughter Mary
as William III, and the reign is usually called the reign of "William AND MARY". James sponsored colonies -- Catholic in Maryland and Quaker in Pennsylvania.

NEXT category: any but political: K

Katharine Hepburn (1907 –2003), actress, and also a bit of a writer whose books include "The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind"

Next L, but not entertainment or writing

Louis Farrakhan, politician, Muslim evangelist

NEXT: any category except religion or politics: M

Michel Legrand , French musical composer, arranger, conductor, pianist

Next: N. Not in any way connected with music

Nomar Garciaparra - baseball player, Boston Red Sox and some other teams later on.
Noted for hitting two grand slams in the same game in his home park. Married to Mia Hamm, of US Olympic women's soccer fame.

Next: no sports....

Oscar Wilde - writer, playwright, etc.

Paul McNutt (D, IN) 19302--402 politician; briefly a celeb, as possible Democratic nominee, replacing Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. BUt, instead FDR ran for and was elected to
a 3rd term.

NEXT: Excludes Politics: Q or R

Quentin Jerome Tarantino born March 27, 1963 is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor.

Robert Lowell (1917 -- 1977) U. S. poet*

*Knew Author.

Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States (1969–1973), serving under President Richard Nixon.
.

Tom Mix (1880 – 1940), American film actor, star of many early Westerns.

Ursula K. Le Guin - American science fiction writer, known for works such as The Lathe of Heaven and A Wizard of Earthsea

Queen Victoria , British Monarch

Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889), English novelist, considered to be the originator of the detective genre of fiction.

Xerxes The Great - King of Persia

I see that skoobdo has attempted to sabotage this game before it completes, as he has before.
But let's continue:

Yul Brynner (1920 – 1985) stage and film actor.

Zachary Taylor (1784 – 1850), 12th President of the United States

The last letter of the names of literary characters.
This would normally be the last letter of the surname unless the character was only known by one name (e.g. Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare)

There should be few reasons for skipping letters, certainly no skipping of Q, X, Y or Z
Allow at least 24 hours before skipping anything

To start:

Count Dracula, in Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Rosa Klebb, From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming

Masha Miovic , in Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

(continue to ignore the link below to a game that was falsely started)

Samuel Bozzle, He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope

E.I. Lonoff in Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

Queequeg, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Wenohah, daughter of Nokomis in The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Saleem Sinai - Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

J in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Gopchik - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Inspector Mendel in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Call for the Dead by John le Carré

OK- You two have driven me away from the game. It is supposed to be fun, not an ego trip and competitive urination contest for one or two people.

Enjoy it- No one eles is.

Hands up - I admit it, it has been competitive. Sorry if you felt elbowed out.
But anyone else could join in at any time. I'm switching off for a few hours, if that's any help.

~319: Will sit out a few turns if that is the general feeling of what is expected.

Leopold Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce

Jenny Wren : a character in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Don Camillo from The Little World of Don Camillo and other books by Giovannino Guareschi

Philip Pirrip, nickname Pip, in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

~319/~321: I hope it's safe for me to come back -

Tariq in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Augustus Snodgrass, one of the Pickwickians in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) by Charles Dickens

Captain Cat in Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas

Juliana Bordereau, The Aspern Papers by Henry James

Alyosha Karamazov from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pew (Blind Pew) in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mrs Wix in What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Ivy Hisselpenny in Soulless by Gail Carriger

Jack Duluoz in Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

moving over to post #10 at: http://www.librarything.com/topic/128891#3108680