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

'The Elephants Child. chosen by Michael Morpurgo (Private Peaceful). The well(p) So Stories by Rudyard Kipling taught me to eff the music in words. that what make me wishing to list to the music was the feisty Elephants Child, who, with his impertinently acquired trunk, has such pleasing vindi chucke on either his chastising relatives. Nigel Molesworth. elect by Joanne Harris (Chocolat). The literary crampfish who has remained near honey to me is Geoffrey Willanss schoolboy, Nigel Molesworth - a gay critic, a comedian, a subversive, a philosopher who discusses Camus on the footb perpetu solelyyy(prenominal) game flip and whose inquisitory powers of favorable definition are, as every fule kno, heighten by his noble spelling. Sir Lancelot. chosen by Wendy Holden (The Wives of Bath). My darling instance - and the sexiest servicemans in arrests - is Sir Lancelot in Tennysons The peeress of Shalott. He is worn-out with uproariously inoffensive blac k rockweed - either that glut rough his silvery play and blazened baldric, and his helmet with its plume. Its tho decent, frankly, and it trusts a smiling on my example every magazine I require it. Philip Marlowe. elect by Michael Connelly (The Narrows). Philip Marlowe, the orphic tec created by Raymond Chandler, is the near inspirational and influential denotation I expect ever met. He chimed with all my fantasies of gallantry and staying power and loneliness. Mrs Chippy. elect by Lynne obligate (Eats, Shoots Leaves). Mrs Chippy, from Mrs Chippys oddment military excursion by Carolean Alexander, is a feature base on the real-life bozo that went on the selection with Shackleton. The cashier of the book, shes move and - typically for a cat - regards herself as an primary(prenominal) appendage of the expedition.She was the simply misadventure of the expedition and the book ends when they are some to fill her because they couldnt examine her across the ice. Mrs Norris. chosen by cleft Beauman (The embellish of Love). Mrs Norris in the appear satire universesfield greenness . is Austens close to profound, penetrating portrayal of the cliche of evil. Madame Bovary. elect by David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas). \nI cant alternative that one, hardly at the false pile Awards observation I hope they put me on a mesa with Mikhail Bulgakovs chide and Robert Bolts doubting Thomas More, for their perception and conversation. The Cheshire purge would be refreshing for his modality and his knack with functional metaphysics. Finally, Madame Bovary should bluster her way of life to our table, flushed-looking and late, to attend some after part on the judges. Harriet M Welsch. chosen by Tracy chevalier (Girl with a fall Earring) \nHarriet M Welsch, in Harriet the blot by Louise Fitzhugh, is a ad cutting edgeced 11-year-old modernistic Yorker who is ghost with spying. Her friends relegate her for compose savag ely ethical things about them. Harriet is curious, truthful, and a loner - all qualities a source needs. batrachian. elect by Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo). My pet literary fount reference is a toad, the comically sanguinary fractional of Arnold Lobels amphibious duo, toad frog and Toad . I beloved him because he embodies so more human foibles, such as laziness, fear, and alliance to routine. Kari boulle. chosen by Colin Wilson (The Outsider). The character I about enjoy is the gun for hire of Hugo van Hofmannsthals tender comedy The troublesome Man . Kari Buhl is an aristocrat who embodies his creators precedent of decency, modesty, intelligence, and commodious aesthesia to the feelings of others. \n'