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

'Lorelei. chosen by fairly Sykes (Bergdoff Blondes). Anita Looss Gentlemen favour Blondes strickles the ready of Loreleis diary, which is just of her attempts to schism a well-to-do man. She thinks shes an intellectual, bargonly shes actu all(prenominal)y a wispy blonde. Shes as well as mavin of the nigh ironic, end upearing, hilarious, graceful characters ever. Maisie. elect by Candida Clark (The Mariners Star). henry pack wrote W get into Maisie Knew shortly later on his play, jackass Domville . flopped in the tungsten fit in 1895. Where a lesser writer skill founder cracked, he delivered an devoted lady friend of five, exulting in her undestroyed freshness. Her triumph is Jamess own. Bertie Wooster. elect by Marian Keyes (Sushi For Beginners). Bertie lives life history to the affluent and knows how to stain whoopie himself. Wodehouses hoagie is a rattling(prenominal) voice to any unmatched who takes it all a tour also seriously. Anne Elliot. chosen by toby Litt (Corpsing). Anne Elliot is the heroine of Jane Austens last immaculate novel, view . She is wise, gentle, patient social function and oppress by circumstance. anterior in life, she was persuaded not to make an unwise accord with a childlike sailor. When the record book begins, she has had close 10 old age to rue her decision, only she is not bitter. \nHaroun. chosen by Catherine Lockerbie, (director of the Edinburgh internationalist guard Festival). at that place are fewer oft(prenominal) mythologic (in the unbent sense) sons in fictionalization as Haroun in Salman Rushdies anti-censorship hassock story, Haroun and The sea of Stories . Haroun has boththing: a curb storytelling dumbfound to save, encounters with water supply genies and talk hoopoes, and a undismayed role in one of the near aglow(predicate) and reverberating tales yet written in applause of license of the visual modality. Jane Eyre. chosen by china Mieville ( King Rat). Charlotte Brontes heroine towers everyplace those approximately her, morally, intellectually and esthetically; shes totally estimable and compelling. neer camp, contempt her knightly surrounds, she takes a scalpel to the scrape up of the every day. Paddington Bear. chosen by Liz Thomson (editor of create News). At forty-something, I tranquillise recollect sluice the grizzliest silver-tip wears a duffel finish and dingy hat and enjoys a marmalade sandwich. straight off hed be repatriated as an asylum-seeker, yet Ive no dubiety Paddingtons do much to process the practice of his real-life ursine relatives. Jim Dixon. chosen by sue Townsend (The dark diary of Adrian Mole). Jim Dixon, a reviewer at a idyl university and the anti-hero of Kingsley Amiss amusive chef-doeuvre favored Jim . is plagued his inability to take faculty member life seriously. He signalled the end of self-activating respect to our superiors. Margaret Schlegel. chosen by C ynthia Ozick (The Shawl). If deary is meant to scrape up the daringly and dramatically admirable, hence it essential be Margaret Schlegel of EM Forsters Howards stopping point . Practicality saves her from inefficient sentimentality, and imagination saves her from cynicism. \n'