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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our favourite character has a rainbow in her personality and wardrobe. With her colourful clothes and her bright personality, she helped bring the wheelchair-ridden and depressed Will out of his shell ...