  We study temporal networks of characters in literature focusing on "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll and the anonymous "La Chanson
de Roland" (around 1100). The former, one of the most influential pieces of
nonsense literature ever written, describes the adventures of Alice in a
fantasy world with logic plays interspersed along the narrative. The latter, a
song of heroic deeds, depicts the Battle of Roncevaux in 778 A.D. during
Charlemagne's campaign on the Iberian Peninsula. We apply methods recently
developed by Taylor and coworkers \cite{Taylor+2015} to find time-averaged
eigenvector centralities, Freeman indices and vitalities of characters. We show
that temporal networks are more appropriate than static ones for studying
stories, as they capture features that the time-independent approaches fail to
yield.
