The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

So, in a recent British poll on the most romantic literary character of all time (men, that is; they dealt with women in an earlier poll), top honors went to Rochester, the brooding hunk at the heart ...

Writers have used cars to invent experiences we could never imagine. When a horseless carriage hurtled down the road towards Toad, Ratty and Mole in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows, it ...

Everyone who enjoys reading, and even those who do not, have a favourite literary character. From childhood staples such as William Brown and Paddington Bear to classic heroes and heroines like ...