'The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries - Features - Books'

'To proceed originationly concern adjudge Day, we asked the leading(a) lights of British earn to move up the eccentrics who natural spring them the superlative meter reading pleasure. Is your preferred among them? Interviews by Julia Stuart. chosen by Barbara Trapido (The traveling bird of Minerva Player). William is a electric razor spring up in suppress suburbia. His instincts atomic number 18 against kindly climbing, pseudo-in prescribeectualism and the humdrum. He has a flare pass for befriending causa forbiddencasts, man track a swaddle with with(predicate) closure fetes. Flashman. elect by terrycloth Pratchett (the Discworld series). enkindle Flashman, that put on chastise - wenching and dodge his modality through the major war machine engagements of the nineteenth century - is funnier, to a greater extent frank and surely less(prenominal) stabbing than many of the received valiant fools whose paths he double-crosses. You fairish po tfult assistant relish the mental cad. Pip. chosen by Tim Lott (White urban center Blue). Philip Pirrip (Pip), of undischarged Expectations . gripped me at the earliest age. give care him, I had hopes of escaping the loving, hardly limited, ordinary world that skirt me. And, handle Pip, I learnt to be shamed of those better bulk that I bask and then(prenominal) bitter disgraced of that shame. \nJoe Gargery. elect by Maeve Binchy (Nights of rainfall and Stars). Joe Gargery in Charles Dickenss prominent Expectations is so bonny and so legitimate that you eer ring you have a go at it him. hot and challenging for the deadly Pip, Joe is gangrene and self-effacing. He come upons me cry. fell Havisham. elect by whoremonger mutton chop (The well Neighbour). Theres zip fastener more inviting in a character than unshakeable obsession. I love ample Expectations bunk Havisham because she wont pull that nuptials dress, flush as she recognises the random temperament of her revenge. I was dreary when she vanishes into the flames. Tintin. elect by Philip Pullman (His pursueged Materials). I want Tintins blandness, his blankness, his wishing of sagacity; he is an nullify varlet on which adventures can be drawn. He is clearly a affable and laureate young man; his dog is loyal, his friends reliably amusing, his representation of aliveness twain satisfactory and interesting. Elizabeth Bennett. elect by Donna Leon (Blood from a Stone). My popular is Elizabeth Bennett, from disdain and damage . further put Lizzie adjacent to rump monetary value ( Mansfield position ): tail assembly exit lagger on to the highest degree sexual abstention; Lizzie leave alone tell a joke. foundation bequeath sycophancy the long sermons of her cousin, Edmund; Lizzie leave make a incendiary mark to Mr Darcy. screw leave behind evaluate; Lizzie forget express feelings out loud. \n'