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List of novels by point of view
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The following alphabetical lists of novels are categorized by the point of view. The intent of this article is not to be comprehensive, but to compare at a glance various points of view by providing well known examples. First person First person present-tense Everything happens in the character's 'now'. * Atwood, ' * Dubus, House of Sand and Fog * Ellis, American Psycho * Ford, "Independence Day" * Frey, A Million Little Pieces * Hornby, High Fidelity * Palahniuk, Fight Club * Wong, The Pacific Between First person protagonist Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel * Dinesen, Out of Africa * Salinger, Catcher in the Rye * Sebold, The Lovely Bones First person ancillary Where the narrator observes action, but is an ancillary character * Doyle, Sherlock Holmes * Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby * Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes * Kesey, ' * Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird * Mann, Doktor Faustus Multiple first person Where multiple characters individually narrate from first-person POV *Bronte, Wuthering Heights * Irving, Setting Free the Bears * Korman, No More Dead Dogs *William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying *Graham Swift, Last Orders *Julian Barnes, Talking it Over *Ana Castillo, The Guardians *Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love *Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants *Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Second person Present tense * Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (odd-numbered chapters) * McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City * Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas * Camus, The Fall * Murakami, After Dark Past tense * Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1 Third person Third person, limited * Card, Ender's Game. The parallel novel Ender's Shadow is told from the same limited perspective following a different character. * Kelman, how late it was, how late. Third person, omniscient or dramatic * McCullough, The Thornbirds * Mitchell, Gone with the Wind * Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Third person, objective *Wolfe, The Right Stuff Multiple points of view *Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury *Murakami, Kafka on the Shore *Wharton, Ethan Frome *Franzen, The Corrections *Winterson, Art & Lies Alternate point of view See Also
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