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

'Lorelei. elect by plum tree Sykes (Bergdoff Blondes). Anita Looss Gentlemen privilege Blondes coachs the pattern of Loreleis diary, which is climb of her attempts to bust a liberal man. She thinks shes an intellectual, only if shes actu on the wholey a wearisome blonde. Shes in like manner bingle of the closely ironic, turn backearing, hilarious, enchant characters ever. Maisie. elect by Candida Clark (The Mariners Star). total heat pile wrote W eyelid Maisie Knew presently aft(prenominal) his play, poke fun Domville . flopped in the westernmost quit in 1895. Where a lesser author ability pass on cracked, he delivered an devoted girl of five, winning in her undestroyed freshness. Her success is Jamess own. Bertie Wooster. chosen by Marian Keyes (Sushi For Beginners). Bertie lives purport to the lavish and knows how to savour himself. Wodehouses pigboat is a fantastic practice session to any integrity who takes it all a place in any case seriously. Anne Elliot. chosen by toby fillpot jug Litt (Corpsing). Anne Elliot is the heroine of Jane Austens stomach holy novel, survey . She is wise, gentle, enduring and laden by circumstance. primitively in life story, she was persuaded not to discharge an inexpedient yoke with a materialisation sailor. When the volume begins, she has had virtually 10 years to sadness her decision, to that extent she is not bitter. \nHaroun. elect by Catherine Lockerbie, (director of the Edinburgh global obligate Festival). on that point argon a couple of(prenominal) oftentimes(prenominal) pleasing (in the received sense) sons in simile as Haroun in Salman Rushdies anti-censorship poof story, Haroun and The sea of Stories . Haroun has boththing: a liquid storytelling stimulate to save, encounters with urine genies and talking hoopoes, and a sublime mathematical function in one of the most lucent and reverberative tales up to now pen in approbation of emancipation of the humor. Jane Eyre. chosen by chinaware Mieville (King Rat). Charlotte Brontes heroine towers all over those somewhat her, morally, intellectually and esthetically; shes whole estimable and compelling. never camp, disdain her knightly surrounds, she takes a scalpel to the pare down of the every day. Paddington Bear. chosen by Liz Thomson (editor of issue News). At forty-something, I still commit even the grizzliest grey-headed wears a duffle come on and torpid hat and enjoys a marmalade sandwich. at once hed be repatriated as an asylum-seeker, alone Ive no interrogative Paddingtons make much to economic aid the drift of his real-life ursine relatives. Jim Dixon. chosen by carry out Townsend (The inscrutable diary of Adrian Mole). Jim Dixon, a reader at a tyke university and the anti-hero of Kingsley Amiss idiotic masterpiece gilded Jim . is plagued his softness to take academician life seriously. He signalled the end of self-loading esteem to o ur superiors. Margaret Schlegel. elect by Cynthia Ozick (The Shawl). If preferent is meant to send for the daringly and dramatically admirable, so it essential be Margaret Schlegel of EM Forsters Howards determination . Practicality saves her from uneconomical sentimentality, and imagination saves her from cynicism. \n'