Are you looking for some
literary dog names for your boy or girl puppies? Here comes our selection of top 10 literary dog names after the greatest literary characters in all of literature such as plays, poetry, children's literature, or the books of the Bible. Feel free to choose your favorite first name, last name, or full name of these characters as your dog name.
Humbert Humbert: Humbert Humbert is Lolita's protagonist and narrator, and he is a middle-aged literature professor.
Hester Prynne: Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors. The character has been called "among the first and most important female protagonists in American literature."
Ebenezer Scrooge: Ebenezer Scrooge is the focal character of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol. His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy. Ebenezer Scrooge is arguably both one of the most famous characters created by Charles Dickens and one of the most famous in English literature.
Holly Golightly: The main character of Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, one of Capote's best-known creations.
Big Brother: Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling Party wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants.
Lady Brett Ashley: A hot stuff in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, and she is gorgeous, seductive, smart, and damned good-looking. Lady Brett Ashley may be the sexiest female character name of all time.
Jean Valjean: Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Miserables. Hugo depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's children during a time of economic depression and various attempts to escape from prison.
Atticus Finch: Atticus Finch is a fictional character in author Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama. Book Magazine's list of The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 names Finch as the seventh best fictional character of 20th-century literature. In 2003 the American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch, as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all American cinema.
Philip Pirrip: Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations. He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature, widely portrayed all over the world on stage and screen.
Lolita: Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English. Lolita is today regarded as one of the prime achievements in 20th century literature, though also among the most controversial. Its assimilation into popular culture is such that the name "Lolita" has been used to imply that a young girl is sexually precocious.
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