Characters
- James Donaghue (Jake), a writer and translator in his early thirties
- Peter O'Finney (Finn), a distant cousin
- Magdalen Casement (Madge), a typist living on Earls Court Road
- Samuel Starfield (Sammy), a wealthy bookmaker
- Mrs Tinckham, a chain-smoking, cat-loving shopkeeper near Charlotte Street
- Dave Gellman, a Jewish anti-Metaphysical philosopher, living on Goldhawk Road
- Lefty Todd, leader of the New Independent Socialist Party
- Anna Quentin, a singer
- Sadie Quentin, a film star
- Hugo Belfounder, a fireworks manufacturer and film magnate
- Ward Matron; Sister Piddingham; Stitch, a hospital porter
- Mister Mars, a 14-year-old Alsatian, the star of many popular animal movies
- Jean-Pierre Breteuil, a French writer whose novels include:
- Le Rossignol de Bois ("The Wooden Nightingale")
- Les Pierres de l'Amour ("Stones of Love")
- Nous les Vainqueurs ("We who Vanquished")
- Homer K. Pringsheim (H.K.), an American film magnate
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)