The Eyre affair : a novel / Jasper Fforde.
Fforde, Jasper.
2003
PR6106.F67 E97 2003 (Mapit)
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Title The Eyre affair : a novel / Jasper Fforde.
Author Fforde, Jasper.
ISBN 0142001805 (pbk.)
9780142001806 (pbk.)
Imprint New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2003.
Language English
Description vii, 374 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number PR6106.F67 E97 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.92
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 ...
Note Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2001.
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Woman named Thursday next
Gad's Hill
Back at my desk
Acheron Hades
Search for the guilty, punish the innocent
Jane Eyre: Short excursion into the novel
Goliath Corporation
Airship to Swindon
Next family
Finis Hotel, Swindon
Polly flashes upon the inward eye
SpecOps-27: Literary detectives
Church at Capel-y-ffin
Lunch with Bowden
Hello & goodbye, Mr. Quaverley
Sturmey Archer & Felix7
SpecOps-17: Suckers & biters
Landen again
Very Irrev. Joffy next
- Dr. Runcible spoon
Hades & Goliath
Waiting game
Drop
Martin Chuzzlewith is reprieved
Time enough for contemplation
Earthcrosses
Hades finds another manuscript
Haworth house
Jany Eyre
Groundswell of popular feeling
People's Republic of Wales
Thornfield Hall
Book if written
Nearly the end of their book
Nearly the end of our book
Married.

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