Dictionary of fictional characters

A readers' guide to some 50,000 fictional characters from novels, short stories, poems, plays, and operas, mostly by British and American authors, but including some foreign-language classics popular in translation. Seymour-Smith has reedited and significantly expanded the earlier text of Freeman and Urquhart (Dent, 1974) to include present-day fiction. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.