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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780142001806 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the classics, the
fantasy element, and the crazy names of the characters. It works
for someone who enjoys the classics (like me) or for those who enjoy fantasy (like my husband). For me the best fun was re-reading Jane Eyre and knowing between which chapters Thursday visited and when the Japanese tourist arrived....
Recommended by Carla, Powells.com
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Publisher Comments:
Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids.
Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. Next up in the Thursday Next series: Lost in a Good Book. Read more about it at thursdaynext.com.
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meganpardue, June 5, 2008 (view all comments by meganpardue)
I could not put this book down! Fforde's description, characterization, and wit is absolutely brilliant! I also recommend the audio version of this book for road trips and the like. The reader is fantastic and does different voices apart from her own for all of the different and peculiar characters.
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halofriendly, December 12, 2007 (view all comments by halofriendly)
The space I would need to write about how much I love Jasper Fforde's books exceeds what I have available here. Suffice it to say, everyone should pick this series up and read it. It's intelligent, it makes great & nerdy references to everything pop culture and literary, and the storyline is quite original.
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megcampbell3, October 27, 2007 (view all comments by megcampbell3)
What can I say? A fast read, to be sure. It reads like a big-budget movie watches. I wished I could suspend my own disbelief long enough to care about this book, but, alas, I could not. I felt like Jasper Fforde was a tiny little excitable elf who'd clumsily reveal plot twists while winking at me. It reminded me of "The DaVinci Code" in that way. I'd take a Ray Bradbury story any day over this series. It was recommended to me by a voracious, trusted reader, but my copy will go in the train depot share-a-book rack. It'll distract someone on their daily commute well enough. I suppose every book has its place.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780142001806
- Subtitle:
- A Thursday Next Novel
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Location:
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fathers and daughters
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- Wales
- Subject:
- Censorship
- Subject:
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Subject:
- Crimean War, 185
- Subject:
- Alternative histories
- Subject:
- Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Edition Number:
- 1st American ed.
- Series:
- Thursday Next Mysteries
- Series Volume:
- #1
- Publication Date:
- February 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 7.70x5.10x.72 in. .58 lbs.
