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Misfits and Madmen: My Fictional Heroes
The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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Mersault 's inability to lie is his downfall
Demian (Peter Owen Modern Classic)Demian (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Hermann Hesse
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Max Demian, what a star
Brighton RockBrighton Rock by Graham Greene
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Pinkie may be an unusual hero to list, but he is alone in a world that has no place for him
Amadeus: A Play by Peter ShafferAmadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer by Peter Shaffer
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Salieri is my patron saint
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Unabridged (Puffin audiobooks)Fantastic Mr. Fox: Unabridged (Puffin audiobooks) by Roald Dahl
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Mr Fox is the Robin Hood of the animal world
The Secret HistoryThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Henry always finds a way...
Cyrano de Bergerac (Oxford World's Classics)Cyrano de Bergerac (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmond Rostand
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Cyrano and his panache - inspiring
A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov
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Pechorin is a hero for all our times
The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics)The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics) by D. H. Lawrence
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Forget Women in Love, this is Ursula struggling to maintain her individuality
The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics)The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics) by George Eliot
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Maggie Tulliver makes a mistake, but she's brave enough to face up to it, whatever the costs...
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Classics)The Epic of Gilgamesh (Classics) by Penguin Classics
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Enkidu journeys from innocence into the world of men
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics)Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
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Marianne is another unusual choice, but she makes a mistake due to her natural honesty, then wholeheartedly tries to change
King Lear (New Penguin Shakespeare)King Lear (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Edmund is cool and Cordelia is everything I'd like to be
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics)The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Henry Jekyll is a brave man, right until the end
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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My favourite detective, and delightfully eccentric
Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics)Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
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Henry Pulling makes life's most important discovery
Dennis the Menace Annual 1998Dennis the Menace Annual 1998
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Troublesome? Dennis? Never!
SteppenwolfSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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Harry Haller and I have a lot in common