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The Eyre affair : a novel / Jasper Fforde.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fforde, Jasper. Thursday Next ; Publication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: vii, 374 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0142001805
  • 0613629019
  • 1435282035 (Paw Prints)
  • 9780142001806
  • 9780613629010 (hc)
  • 9781435282032 (Paw Prints)
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Contents:
A woman named Thursday Next -- Gad's Hill -- Back at my desk -- Acheron Hades -- Search for the guilty, punish the innocent -- Jane Eyre: a short excursion into the novel -- The Goliath corporation -- Airship to Swindon -- The Next family -- The Finis Hotel, Swindon -- Polly flashes upon the inward eye -- SpecOps-27: the literary detectives -- The church at Capel-y-ffin -- Lunch with Bowden -- Hello & goodbye, Mr. Quaverley -- Sturmey Archer and Felix7 -- SpecOps-17: suckers & biters -- Landen again -- The very irrev. Joffy Next -- Dr. Runcible Spoon -- Hades & Goliath -- The waiting game -- The drop -- Martin Chuzzlewit is reprieved -- Time enough for contemplation -- The earthcrossers -- Hades finds another manuscript -- Haworth House -- Jane Eyre -- A groundswell of popular feeling -- The People's Republic of Wales -- Thornfield Hall -- The book is written -- Nearly the end of their book -- Nearly the end of our book -- Married.
Summary: Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodas are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a delightful rabbit hole of a read: once you fall in you may never come back. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in Wordsworth poems, militant Baconians roam freely spreading the gospel that Bacon, not Shakespeare, penned those immortal works. And forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. This is all business as usual for brainy, bookish (and heat-packing) Thursday Next, a renowned Special Operative in literary detection -- that is, until someone begins murdering characters from works of literature. When this madman plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bronte's novel Thursday faces the challenge of her career. Aided and abetted by characters that include her time-traveling father, an executive of the all-powerful Goliath Corporation, and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday must track down the world's Third Most Wanted criminal and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. A brilliantly outlandish and absorbing caper destined to become a classic adventure tale, The Eyre Affair is an irresistible thriller and the introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer. In Jasper Fforde's singular fictional universe no literary character is safe from crime. And for Special Operative Thursday Next this is only the beginning ...
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Fforde Jasper Available 33111009252533
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Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend

Jasper Fforde's beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of The Constant Rabbit

Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it's a bibliophile's dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy--enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel--unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2001.

A woman named Thursday Next -- Gad's Hill -- Back at my desk -- Acheron Hades -- Search for the guilty, punish the innocent -- Jane Eyre: a short excursion into the novel -- The Goliath corporation -- Airship to Swindon -- The Next family -- The Finis Hotel, Swindon -- Polly flashes upon the inward eye -- SpecOps-27: the literary detectives -- The church at Capel-y-ffin -- Lunch with Bowden -- Hello & goodbye, Mr. Quaverley -- Sturmey Archer and Felix7 -- SpecOps-17: suckers & biters -- Landen again -- The very irrev. Joffy Next -- Dr. Runcible Spoon -- Hades & Goliath -- The waiting game -- The drop -- Martin Chuzzlewit is reprieved -- Time enough for contemplation -- The earthcrossers -- Hades finds another manuscript -- Haworth House -- Jane Eyre -- A groundswell of popular feeling -- The People's Republic of Wales -- Thornfield Hall -- The book is written -- Nearly the end of their book -- Nearly the end of our book -- Married.

Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodas are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a delightful rabbit hole of a read: once you fall in you may never come back. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in Wordsworth poems, militant Baconians roam freely spreading the gospel that Bacon, not Shakespeare, penned those immortal works. And forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. This is all business as usual for brainy, bookish (and heat-packing) Thursday Next, a renowned Special Operative in literary detection -- that is, until someone begins murdering characters from works of literature. When this madman plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bronte's novel Thursday faces the challenge of her career. Aided and abetted by characters that include her time-traveling father, an executive of the all-powerful Goliath Corporation, and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday must track down the world's Third Most Wanted criminal and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. A brilliantly outlandish and absorbing caper destined to become a classic adventure tale, The Eyre Affair is an irresistible thriller and the introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer. In Jasper Fforde's singular fictional universe no literary character is safe from crime. And for Special Operative Thursday Next this is only the beginning ...

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