English literature's most loved happy ending is that of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which Elizabeth and Mr Darcy live happily ever after according to the survey.
Close behind were Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, about understanding about race and the disabled, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, where the heroine overcomes all to get married.
When it comes to sad endings the poll found that most readers want to rewrite the outcomes many famous novels.
What if the President of the Immortals stopped mucking about with Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and allowed Angel
Clare to rescue her from the scaffold.
Why should’nt Cathy marry Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights and if Rhett Butler gave a damn in Gone With the Wind he would return to Scarlett O'Hara.
And Harry Potter gets a mention too. That unhappy event in the Half-Blood Prince…. no more of that thank you JK.