Scruffy, exuberant, incorrigible, William Brown has been a hero for children - and adults - for generations. Richmal Crompton created William Brown just over 70 years ago as a pot-boiler, but his instant and enduring success kept her writing about him for five decades, creating around him a vivid world of events, relationships and places with wonderfully engaging, obnoxious or eccentric characters. The "William" stories occupy 38 books; "The William Companion" provides an A-Z of characters, themes and background to the whole saga. The plots and incidents from many of the stories are described with atmospheric and amusing studies of hundreds of characters. The book will guide readers old and new through the highways and byways of Richmal Crompton's stories. Mary Cadogan co-authored with Pat Craig, "You're A Brick, Angela".
- ISBN10 0333511840
- ISBN13 9780333511848
- Publish Date 30 March 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 August 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Papermac
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English