The Eyre Affair: A Novel

Jasper Fforde

Penguin, 2003 - Fiction - 374 pages

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 Brontė'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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User Review  - Kuglar - LibraryThing

Just tried rereading it and I'm going down a star. Awful. The names (seriously, Jack Shitt?), the almost complete lack of female characters (Dear male authors, random people in books don't all have to ...

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User Review  - setnahkt - LibraryThing

The heroine, Thursday Next, lives in an alternate universe where England has been fighting the Crimean War for 137 years, dodos thrive but ducks are extinct (although scientists have determined the ...

Contents

• I: 1
• II: 11
• III: 18
• IV: 29
• V: 44
• VI: 63
• VII: 71
• VIII: 77
• IX: 90
• X: 106
• XI: 122
• XII: 128
• XIII: 143
• XIV: 151
• XV: 162
• XVI: 172
• XVII: 179
• XVIII: 192
• XIX: 201
• XX: 209
• XXI: 216
• XXII: 220
• XXIII: 232
• XXIV: 238
• XXV: 243
• XXVI: 264
• XXVII: 286
• XXVIII: 295
• XXIX: 300
• XXX: 303
• XXXI: 318
• XXXII: 329
• XXXIII: 344
• XXXIV: 351
• XXXV: 366

About the author

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and The Woman Who Died A Lot. The series has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. He is also the author of The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear of the Nursery Crime series, Shades of Grey, and books for young readers, including The Last Dragonslayer. Visit jasperfforde.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Eyre Affair: A Novel; Volume 1 of A Thursday Next Novel
• Author: Jasper Fforde
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin, 2003
• ISBN: 0142001805, 9780142001806
• Length: 374 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Alternative History; Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths