@article{313033,
      note = {Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2001.},
      author = {Fforde, Jasper.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/313033},
      title = {The Eyre affair : a novel /},
      publisher = {Penguin Books,},
      abstract = {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 ...},
      recid = {313033},
      pages = {vii, 374 p. ;},
      address = {New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :},
      year = {2003},
}