100 great literary prototypes

Literary characters are most often the fiction of the author. But sometimes the writer in search of his hero turns to real life. The prototype is a specific historical person or contemporary, the identity of which served the author with the starting point for creating an image. Gorky believed that the writer is obliged to think and typify the image of a real person. And the study of prototypes of Dostoevsky’s characters and completely requires significant philosophical knowledge, so deeply the writer plunged into human being.
quite often the prototypes of literary heroes were close friends, acquaintances, and sometimes beloved writers. Often, accurate portraits of real adventurers or dubious adventure lovers fell into the pages of books ...
The next book of the series tells about the hundred most famous and recognizable literary heroes and their prototypes