The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1)
Jasper Fforde
3.84 · 42 ratings · Published: 19 Jul 2001
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.
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The 'Thursday Next' series
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- Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Book #2
- The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Book #3
- Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde Book #4
- First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde Book #5
- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde Book #6
- The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde Book #7
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