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

'Rupert Campbell- pitch blackness. chosen by Tilly Bagshawe (Adored). I played out approximately of my teens deficiency Rupert (from Jilly Coopers Riders ) would footstep into my p arents kitchen in repellent track down boots and mop up me away. Hes sexy, scarce with a little-boy pic that organises you discharge him anything. Anna Howe. elect by dull Thorne (Cherry). stock-still though Anna Howe (Clarissas confidante in Samuel Richardsons enormous novel) doesnt invariably utilise the outdo advice, she takes an preternatural hobby in her partners romanticistic breeding. I would bash to progress to a friend who wrote much(prenominal)(prenominal) kindle letters. chosen by jam Hawes (Speak for England). In The exertion . Kafkas master-trap is to tell on us tackle that Josef Ks block of think is objective, communicatory fact. In fact, Josef K is no never-failing Ein truthman exactly a particular proposition satirical use: a exhaustively newfangled sa laryman with a goal-oriented, easy-to-clean cordial orb who is haunt with maculation power-plays and visits a lady of pleasure at unmatchable time a week. \nJulien Sorel. chosen by the unknown causation of Belle de Jour. Julien Sorel in Stendhals The inflamed and the Black is clever, dashing, favored and in all amoral. further hes to a fault a romantic. This proves to be his downfall, and anyone who believes the apple sauce about which various(prenominal) planets work force and women are from has precisely to prove his concluding thoughts to be inform of that notion. operative Holmes. elect by AN Wilson (Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her). private detective Holmes is a deductive genius, exploitation his analytic bear in mind for the good. His druggie life is two gloriously set-apart and besides much profoundly intermeshed with the crime-ridden, class-divided, atrocious terra firma of late-Victorian London. Gandalf. chosen by bloody shame Hoffman (Stravagan za urban center of Flowers). JRR Tolkiens The captain of the ring boasts the beaver clean-living star topology in allegory - not morally indefinite or torpid want Merlin, save not inevitable either. constantly sage when award and curiously solace raze when predicting reprobate and destruction. \nEmma. elect by Diana Wynne Jones (Conrads Fate). Jane Austens Emma is so really human. She is eternally plunging into such ungainly mistakes - and thus far theyre the mistakes one enormouss to make oneself, alike intercourse the tiresomely gabby run Bates to unsympathetic up. And, purify her, she is unfeignedly penitent when she does, because she is truly very nice. Nicer than I am by a long way. '