Comedy literature characters

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' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

fictional character created by Astrid Lindgren

novel by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek

fictional character from German folklore

fictional character in Astrid Lindgren's books

picture story by Wilhelm Busch

children's book series by René Goscinny

Italian children's book series

cycle of Old French fables

1980 children's book written by Roald Dahl

Woland () is a fictional character in the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian (Soviet) author Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940. Woland is the mysterious foreigner and professor whose visit to Moscow sets the plot rolling and turns the world upside-down.

fictional character

fictional rabbit in Uncle Remus folklore

The Thénardiers, commonly known as ( , ) and , are fictional characters, and the secondary antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel and in many adaptations of the novel into other media.

fictional character created by Helen Fielding

fictional big cat from the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov

character from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita"

thumb| as Tartarin in an 1888 stage adaptation of Tartarin on the Alps Tartarin is the main character in the French writer Alphonse Daudet's novels Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Tartarin on the Alps (1885) and Port Tarascon (1890). He is a plump and gullible man who is spurred by the small-town dynamics of Tarascon in Provence to go on a series of misadventures abroad. The stories are written as parodies of heroic genres.

1837 comedic story by Karl Marx

fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards)

character from Spanish and Latin American (especially Chilean, Mexican, and Guatemalan) folklore that typifies the rogue, rascal or trickster.

novel by Anne Fine

book by Eric Rohmann

Azazello (in early versions of the book, Fiello, ) is a character from the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. A demon, a member of Woland's entourage. "The demon of the waterless desert, the killer-demon".

book series by Sinikka and Tiina Nopola