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

Lorelei. chosen by plum Sykes (Bergdoff Blondes). Anita Looss Gentlemen Prefer Blondes masterminds the edition of Loreleis diary, which is full of her attempts to countercurrent a deep man. She thinks shes an intellectual, just shes genuinely a mum blonde. Shes also unity of the most ironic, suppressearing, hilarious, becharm characters ever. Maisie. chosen by Candida Clark (The Mariners Star). Henry throng wrote What Maisie Knew soon later his play, Guy Domville . flopped in the West residuum in 1895. Where a lesser source might cast cracked, he delivered an sure girl of five, rejoicing in her undestroyed freshness. Her success is Jamess own. Bertie Wooster. chosen by Marian Keyes (Sushi For Beginners). Bertie lives intent to the full and knows how to do it himself. Wodehouses hero is a wonderful representative to any unity who takes it all a bit too seriously. Anne Elliot. Chosen by Toby Litt (Corpsing). Anne Elliot is the heroine of Jane Austens hold piss ing completed novel, judgement . She is wise, gentle, patient and loaded by circumstance. antecedent in lifetime, she was persuaded non to make an inexpedient match with a young sailor. When the decl ar begins, she has had almost 10 years to regret her decision, however she is not bitter. \nHaroun. Chosen by Catherine Lockerbie, (director of the Edinburgh International curb Festival). There are few such fabulous (in the uncoiled sense) sons in allegory as Haroun in Salman Rushdies anti-censorship fairy story, Haroun and The ocean of Stories . Haroun has everything: a suppress storytelling father to save, encounters with water genies and talking hoopoes, and a heroic social function in one of the most luminous and resonant tales yet written in praise of emancipation of the imagination. Jane Eyre. Chosen by China Mieville (King Rat). Charlotte Brontes heroine towers everyplace those around her, morally, intellectually and aesthetically; shes wholly admirable and compe lling. never camp, despite her chivalric surrounds, she takes a scalpel to the discase of the every day. Paddington Bear. Chosen by Liz Thomson (editor of make News). At forty-something, I still hope even the grizzliest gray-haired wears a duffel coat and inert hat and enjoys a marmalade sandwich. Today hed be repatriated as an asylum-seeker, but Ive no inquiry Paddingtons done a good deal to help the induce of his real-life ursine relatives. Jim Dixon. Chosen by action Townsend (The Secret journal of Adrian Mole). Jim Dixon, a proofreader at a provincial university and the anti-hero of Kingsley Amiss rum masterpiece gilt Jim . is plagued his inability to take academic life seriously. He signalled the end of automatic regard to our superiors. Margaret Schlegel. Chosen by Cynthia Ozick (The Shawl). If favourite is meant to come up the daringly and dramatically admirable, then it moldiness be Margaret Schlegel of EM Forsters Howards End . Practicality saves her from un economic sentimentality, and imagination saves her from cynicism. \n