The Eyre Affair
By Jasper Fforde
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780142001806, 384pp.)
Publication Date: February 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Prebound (February 2003), Prebound (February 2003), Audio Cassette - Abridged (February 2002)
Categories: General
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In Jasper Fforde's 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. 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.
Jasper Fforde recently traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page.
"[Thursday Next is] part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
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