The Eyre Affair
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The first installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will
The first installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
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. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with six more bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and the upcoming The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com.
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In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.
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Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude.
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In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. Reprint.
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Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2001
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Add a SummaryThe first in the series of Thursday Next books. Here, we start with the basics, with Thursday working for a division of law enforcement that focuses exclusively on book related crimes. All goes relatively well, until the realms of fiction and reality cross-over in all together unexpected ways, leading to the random (of sorts) of the book Jane Eyre. Oh, and there's all sorts of other brilliantly dry British and literature related humour.
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Add a Quote"As the saying goes: If you want to get into SpecOps, act kinda weird. We don't tend to pussyfoot around."
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"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."
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Add a CommentFforde's novel is an absolute delight. Easily straddling the border between science fiction and fantasy, his novel is truly a love letter to literature and language. Moving easily from punny names and apostrophe jokes to passages that reflect on what major literary works might be like if things were just a bit different, the novel is entertaining from start to finish. Definitely more fun for those familiar with the works mentioned but definitely accessible to anyone who's ever been lost in the pages of a book.
Picture a world where literature enflames passions the way politics, religion, pro-sports do in our world. Where Baconians riot over who wrote Shakespeare's plays. Where the line between reality and literature blurs and history is malleable (where Wellington is not killed at Waterloo - damn French revisionists at it again). Insert a crime/thriller plot into this world with our heroine Thursday Next and we have a wild novel that continually challenges our perceptions of reality and probability. Though initial impressions would lead us to compare this novel with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker universe, or Terry Pratchet's Discworld, Jasper Fforde does not approach this with a tongue in cheek, or social satire style. This is a serious crime/thriller, although it does have its fair share of comedic episodes. Advice to new readers of this series: it would be wise to have read at least a plot summary of Jane Eyre and to be familiar with characters of that novel. Overall: challenging but fun-filled crime thriller.
Great fun to read! It has everything: time travel, vampires, werewolves, mystery, action, murder, romance, war, fantasy, genetic mutants, and just total madcap insanity. Doubly amusing for literature nerds like me.
Hilarious characters, murder mysteries, sci-fi, and portals to famous English books make for very fun reading.
Actually great!!! Loved all the Jane Eyre plot twists! A+!
Such a great merging of mystery, fantasy, and sci-fi. With just a touch of each, you don't get bogged down by the genre.The first in the series, I'm looking forward to reading the rest!
One of 3 in the series. Do read or watch Jane Eyre first! Highly imaginative travel through reality and time, risking the change of classic novels. A "10" for originality.
A very good mix of science fiction, mystery and humor. Very much enjoyable!
Good book. Later seem to be better developed, but it is a great start and is very well written.
Thursday Next is a LitTec from SpecOps. She spends her days authenticating copies of old books. Sound dull? Try doing that in a world where followers of Bacon travel door to door like Mormons trying to convince you that Shakespeare was not the author of the great canon of plays. Then Jane Eyre is kidnapped out of her own book, and Thursday's old college lecturer, a man that she seems uniquely able to resist, is behind it. Soon she is swept up in an adventure that brings her back to her hometown and to the man she left behind. This is a smart, fast-moving, brilliant alternate history where literature and art reign supreme. Towns have interactive, long running productions of Shakespeare that make Rocky Horror look like amateur. hour. There are marvellous invention that allow worms to act like thesauruses and cars to travel through time. So worth the effort.