The Eyre Affair
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 . . . 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.
The Eyre Affair
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 . . . 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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Combining satire, literary homage, and speculative world-building, comic fantasy and alternate history fiction gained a distinct voice in 2001 with the release of The Eyre Affair. British writer Jasper Fforde established his reputation through this inventive debut novel, which introduced literary detective Thursday Next to readers and landed on the New York Times bestseller list.
Born in London on January 11, 1961, Fforde spent two decades working in the film industry prior to his career as a full-time novelist. His behind-the-scenes film work included positions as a focus puller and first assistant cameraman on major cinematic productions such as GoldenEye, The Saint, and The Mask of Zorro, alongside camera operator and cinematographer roles on several independent films. Drawing on his creative interests, he transitioned to writing and achieved commercial success when his debut novel was published in 2001. Fforde later settled in Wales, where he continues to write his long-running book series and standalone novels. In 2004, he was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing for his novel The Well of Lost Plots.
Fforde's fiction is characterized by absurdist humor, playful metafiction, literary puns, and intricate alternate-reality settings where literature and societal rules operate under bizarre physical laws. His narratives frequently blend detective mystery tropes with science fiction and fantasy, questioning the boundary between fictional worlds and reality. Beyond literary homage, his work explores themes of bureaucratic absurdities, social engineering, and environmental extremes, as seen in Early Riser, set in a world where humanity hibernates through winter, and Red Side Story, which continues his exploration of color-stratified dystopian societies following Shades of Grey.
2 books in catalog
Combining satire, literary homage, and speculative world-building, comic fantasy and alternate history fiction gained a distinct voice in 2001 with the release of The Eyre Affair. British writer Jasper Fforde established his reputation through this inventive debut novel, which introduced literary detective Thursday Next to readers and landed on the New York Times bestseller list.
Born in London on January 11, 1961, Fforde spent two decades working in the film industry prior to his career as a full-time novelist. His behind-the-scenes film work included positions as a focus puller and first assistant cameraman on major cinematic productions such as GoldenEye, The Saint, and The Mask of Zorro, alongside camera operator and cinematographer roles on several independent films. Drawing on his creative interests, he transitioned to writing and achieved commercial success when his debut novel was published in 2001. Fforde later settled in Wales, where he continues to write his long-running book series and standalone novels. In 2004, he was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing for his novel The Well of Lost Plots.
Fforde's fiction is characterized by absurdist humor, playful metafiction, literary puns, and intricate alternate-reality settings where literature and societal rules operate under bizarre physical laws. His narratives frequently blend detective mystery tropes with science fiction and fantasy, questioning the boundary between fictional worlds and reality. Beyond literary homage, his work explores themes of bureaucratic absurdities, social engineering, and environmental extremes, as seen in Early Riser, set in a world where humanity hibernates through winter, and Red Side Story, which continues his exploration of color-stratified dystopian societies following Shades of Grey.
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