We draw our corpus from the public-domain texts on Project Gutenberg, selecting individual works of fiction (both novels and short stories) that include a mix of high literary style (e.g., Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence, James Joyce's Ulysses) and popular pulp fiction (e.g., H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick).
we expand the criteria for PER to include such characters who engage in dialogue or have reported internal monologue, regardless of their human status (this includes depicted non-human life forms in science fiction, such as aliens and robots, as well).