Fiction's fantasy dinner dates

Mr Darcy, Miss Havisham and Leopold and Molly Bloom supping together in the Count of Monte Cristo's cave with Game of Thrones' Tirion Lanister. Can you think of a more mouth-watering literary dinner party?

In last week's Tips Links and Suggestions the conversation turned to an old party game: fantasy dinner companions. fat_hamster started it by proposing a night out with Game of Thrones' Tyrion Lanister, while conedison preferred Augustus McCrae, from Larry McMurtry's 1986 Pulitzer-winner Lonesome Dove, "because he's Sir Lancelot in spurs with a great sense of humour."

The conversation that followed was so delightful that we're going to leave it in dialogue form:

Tim Hannigan: I think for me its the same answer I give to pretty much every "which fictional character..." question - Yossarian...

fat_hamster: "Catch 22. Can I join you? Well, me and Tyrion.

conedison:
"I, too, love Yossarian, but as a dinner companion I fear breaking bread with him might well be a mournful affair.

fat_hamster: "A dinner party with Yossarion, Tyrion and Augustus would be worth having."

Trevor Edward Walder: "Rose Mary Duck from John Masters Bhowani Junction. Why? Because for some reason I'm captivated by mixed race/Muslim female second-line characters in JM's books. She in a lot of ways was the original for all of them.

fat_hamster: "Oh good, a lady, it was about to get a bit laddish. She better not mind Tyrion's table manners."

conedison: "If Rose Mary Duck is the character who became Victoria Jones in the movie version (Ava Gardner), she is more than welcome."

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