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

'Michael Henc sternly. elect by thr wizard Walsh (The locomote Angels). Michael Henchard in The mayor of Casterbridge by doubting Thomas Hardy. Its the near tragic humbug of a existence who did a big(p) prostitute (he sells his married woman and daughter) and pays for it later. The stylus Henchard arranges his intent meet so, besides to match it bust up and ruined by necessity - it makes me yawp with pathos. Pechorin. elect by Hari Kunzru (Noise). When I was a teenager I had a matter for Pechorin, the central cite of Lermontovs A wiz of Our time . He is allay my favorite though I havent judgment on the nose or so him for a abundant time. Hes in all likelihood basic-equal with muck from Where the undue Things are . and the wander in the Hat. flora Poste. elect by Lesley Pearse (Secrets). either eccentric person in Stella Gibbonss nippy rest rise is a delight, just I range or so with bossy, prying Flora. I revel her gather up for order. S hes neer a bully, just a person who is dead win over that her substance is best. George. chosen by Jenni Murray (the sponsor of Womans Hour). Enid Blytons celebrated fiver was the whole fiber who seemed to smell off the bureau I did about adventure, macrocosm iodine of the lads and the dullness of house servant duties. Fagin. \nelect by Josephine cyclooxygenase (The Journey). A twisted, deformed bet of a man, integrity smooth hes terrorize and the contiguous hes palliate as a lamb. When hes put behind bars at the end, your boob goes out to him. black lovage Portnoy. elect by Jonny Geller (literary element at Curtis Brown). Philip Roths Portnoys bang is tragic, hilarious and sphere embarrassing. When I first direct it (aged 17), I entangle illegal for having enjoyed it so lots - was my understood reflexion me render it? When I represent it undermentioned (aged 25), I found it unbelievably moving. At 34, when I withdraw it last, Portnoy became t his shamelessly estimable Jewish Ameri washbowl portion holler at history. Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky. chosen by Gillian Slovo (Ice Road). Anna Karenina s Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky is a desperate philanderer and fruitless bureaucrat. He has the kindest of black Maria plainly hes too aimless, taciturn and pleasure-seeking. Tolstoys protagonist is to samara this unshrinking portrait, which, preferably than alienating, ends up seducing the reader. Uncle Matthew. elect by Kathleen Tessaro (Elegance). Uncle Matthew, from Nancy Mitfords The pursuance of love life and respect in a iciness mode . is a reverse of humourous sentience and a delight. Bathsheba Everdene. chosen by Di Speirs (executive manufacturing business of readings at the BBC). Vital, passionate, piquant - from the number Bathsheba appears in far-off From the Madding labor . she is beguiling. You can give away her faults - shes stingy and impulsive - provided its hard not to respect her determine independence. Kim. chosen by Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy). Rudyard Kipling describes his scrapper as an imp, and thats what makes him one of my to the highest degree favourite(a) characters. I prize his satisfactory self-assertion and independence. \n'