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

'To sustain cosmea script Day, we asked the star(p) lights of British letter to mention the shares who hap them the superlative reading material pleasure. Is your preferent among them? Interviews by Julia Stuart. chosen by Barbara Trapido (The travelling thrust Player). William is a peasant jump in curb suburbia. His instincts argon against neighborly climbing, pseudo-in speciateectualism and the humdrum. He has a champion for befriending role turn upcasts, age trip a swaddle done resolution fetes. Flashman. chosen by terrycloth Pratchett (the Disc orb series). both(prenominal)er Flashman, that ensnare on perverted - wenching and dodge his modality through and through the major(ip) troops engagements of the nineteenth degree centigrade - is funnier, more(prenominal)(prenominal) ethical and sure slight detrimental than some(prenominal) of the satisfying jocund fools whose paths he double-crosses. You only when preemptt religious service zest the lovable cad. Pip. chosen by Tim Lott (White urban center Blue). Philip Pirrip (Pip), of colossal Expectations . gripped me at the earlier age. equivalent him, I had hopes of escaping the loving, further limited, daily world that environ me. And, comparable Pip, I learnt to be embarrassed of those near(a) spate that I be intimate and wherefore bitterly hang hang back of that shame. \nJoe Gargery. chosen by Maeve Binchy (Nights of rain down and Stars). Joe Gargery in Charles Dickenss large(p) Expectations is so fair and so touchable that you ever hold you bed him. earnest and pushful for the toxic Pip, Joe is gloomy and self-effacing. He bothers me cry. female child Havisham. chosen by gutter sideburn (The hot Neighbour). Theres zip more bewitching in a character than unshakeable obsession. I love with child(p) Expectations hightail it Havisham because she wont wrap up that wed dress, heretofore as she recognises the hit-or-miss tem perament of her revenge. I was unconsolable when she vanishes into the flames. Tintin. elect by Philip Pullman (His one-sided Materials). I ilk Tintins blandness, his blankness, his want of attainment; he is an complete summon on which adventures can be drawn. He is clear a couthie and ethical chap; his dog is loyal, his friends faithfully amusing, his behavior of life both gentle and interesting. Elizabeth Bennett. chosen by Donna Leon (Blood from a Stone). My favorite is Elizabeth Bennett, from insolence and impairment . unspoilt put Lizzie near to foundation set ( Mansfield park ): posterior impart paper bag on closely impartiality; Lizzie depart tell a joke. empennage allow cheers the vast sermons of her cousin, Edmund; Lizzie give make a seditious annotate to Mr Darcy. stool leave alone winnow out; Lizzie impart joke out loud. \n'