The Resource The Eyre affair : a novel, Jasper Fforde
The Eyre affair : a novel, Jasper Fforde
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- 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 ..
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- viii, 374 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780670030644
- Label
- The Eyre affair : a novel
- Title
- The Eyre affair
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jasper Fforde
- Subject
-
- Fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueLiterary historians
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- trueNext, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- trueTime travel
- Time-travel fiction
- Time-travel fiction
- trueWales
- Wales
- Wales -- Fiction
- Women detectives
- trueWomen detectives -- Great Britain
- Women detectives -- Wales -- Fiction
- 1853-1856
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Books and reading
- Books and reading -- Fiction
- trueCensorship
- Censorship
- Censorship -- Fiction
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- trueCharacters and characteristics in literature
- Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- trueCrimean War, 1853-1856
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Fiction
- Crimean War,1853-1856 -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueEngland
- Language
- eng
- 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 ..
- Award
-
- Alex Award, 2003.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2002.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 009058
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fforde, Jasper
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 5.8
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thursday Next
- Series volume
- 0001
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Women detectives
- Crimean War, 1853-1856
- Fathers and daughters
- Books and reading
- Censorship
- Fathers and daughters
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Censorship
- Crimean War,1853-1856
- Books and reading
- Censorship
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Fathers and daughters
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Wales
- Wales
- Wales
- Label
- The Eyre affair : a novel, Jasper Fforde
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 419969
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- viii, 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670030644
- Lccn
- 2001043775
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780670030644
- (OCoLC)48046002
- Label
- The Eyre affair : a novel, Jasper Fforde
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 419969
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- viii, 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670030644
- Lccn
- 2001043775
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780670030644
- (OCoLC)48046002
Subject
- Fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueLiterary historians
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- trueNext, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- trueTime travel
- Time-travel fiction
- Time-travel fiction
- trueWales
- Wales
- Wales -- Fiction
- Women detectives
- trueWomen detectives -- Great Britain
- Women detectives -- Wales -- Fiction
- 1853-1856
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Books and reading
- Books and reading -- Fiction
- trueCensorship
- Censorship
- Censorship -- Fiction
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- trueCharacters and characteristics in literature
- Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- trueCrimean War, 1853-1856
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Fiction
- Crimean War,1853-1856 -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueEngland
Genre
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Time-travel fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
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