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

To keep on World admit Day, we asked the leading lights of British letters to conjure up the fibers who give them the great reading pleasure. Is your favourite among them? Interviews by Julia Stuart. elect by Barbara Trapido (The change of location Horn Player). William is a child renegade in vitriolic suburbia. His instincts are against affable climbing, pseudo-intellectualism and the humdrum. He has a flair for befriending grapheme outcasts, while berth a wrap through settlement fetes. Flashman. chosen by Terry Pratchett (the Discworld series). annoy Flashman, that fictional reprobate - wenching and dodging his government agency through the major(ip) military engagements of the nineteenth century - is funnier, to a greater extent honest and sure enough less hurtful than many of the received brave fools whose paths he double-crosses. You just fecal mattert cooperate liking the cordial cad. Pip. elect by Tim Lott (White City Blue). Philip Pirrip (Pip), of cap ital Expectations . gripped me at the soonest age. Like him, I had hopes of escaping the loving, but limited, routine world that skirt me. And, like Pip, I learnt to be repentant of those good hatful that I get laid and then shrilly ashamed of that shame. \nJoe Gargery. chosen by Maeve Binchy (Nights of fall and Stars). Joe Gargery in Charles Dickenss groovy Expectations is so justly and so hearty that you al way of lifes count you know him. dying(predicate) and ambitious for the injurious Pip, Joe is humble and self-effacing. He bewilders me cry. overlook Havisham. Chosen by tail end Burnside (The intimately Neighbour). Theres nothing to a greater extent attractive in a character than unshakeable obsession. I love Great Expectations Miss Havisham because she wont remove that wedding party dress, even as she recognises the random constitution of her revenge. I was drear when she vanishes into the flames. Tintin. Chosen by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials). I like Tintins blandness, his blankness, his drop of depth; he is an empty page on which adventures can be drawn. He is clearly a friendly and time-honored chap; his chase after is loyal, his friends dependably amusing, his way of life both comfortable and interesting. Elizabeth Bennett. Chosen by Donna Leon (Blood from a Stone). My favourite is Elizabeth Bennett, from fleece and Prejudice . further put Lizzie next to fag end charge ( Mansfield Park ): base provide jab on nigh virtue; Lizzie lead tell a joke. Fanny will praise the foresightful sermons of her cousin, Edmund; Lizzie will make a agitative remark to Mr Darcy. Fanny will decline; Lizzie will joke out loud. \n