Publisher's Synopsis
This is a guide to 1300 fictional characters, from Robinson Crusoe to J.R.Ewing, that has captured the popular imagination over the last 250 years, not just from novels and short stories, but also from plays, operas, verse, radio, television, films and comic strips amongst others.;David Pringle is co-editor and co-publisher of the quarterly fiction magazine "Interzone" and librarian at the Brighton College of Technology.