Raymond Chandler's seven novels about the Los Angeles detective The titular character in Pushkin's novel in verse, Eugene Onegin Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter The titular character in François-René Chateaubriand's novella, René Werther in Goethe's epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther Faust in Goethe's Faust Sir Guy Morville in Charlotte Mary Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) See also Anti-hero Byronic hero List of fictional anti-heroes Romanticism Tragic flaw Epic hero References Literary archetypes Heroes Hero