1. A Woman Named Thursday Next
2. Gad's Hill
3. Back at My Desk
4. Acheron Hades
5. Search for the Guilty, Punish the Innocent
6. Jane Eyre: A Short Excursion in the Novel
7. The Goliath Corporation
8. Airship to Swimdon
9. The Next Family
10. The Finis Hotel, Swindon
11. Polly Flashes Upon the Inward Eye
12. SpecOps-27: The Literary Detectives
13. The Church at Capel-y-ffin
14. Lunch with Bowden
15. Hello and Goodbye, Mr. Quaverley
16. Sturmey Archer and Felix7
17. SpecOps-17: Suckers and Biters
18. Landen Again
19. The Very Irrev. Joffy Next
20. Dr. Runcible Spoon>br> 21. Hades and Goliath
22. The Waiting Game
23. The Drop
24. Martin Chuzzlewit Is Reprieved
25. Time Enough for Contemplation
26. The Earthcrossers
27. Hades Finds Another Manuscript
28. Haworth House
29. Jane Eyre
30. A Groundwell of Popular Feeling
31. The People's Republic of Wales
32. Thornfield Hall
33. The Book Is Written
34. Nearly the End of Their Book
35. Nearly the End of Our Book
36. Married
From the author of THE CHRONICLES OF KAZAM series, including The
Last Dragonslayer
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 series 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 upcoming The Woman Who Died A Lot. He is also the author of The
Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear of the Nursery Crime series, and
Shades of Grey. More recently Fforde's work includes The Last
Dragonslayer, The Chronicles of Kazam series. Visit
jasperfforde.com.
“Neatly delivers alternate history, Monty Pythonesque comedy skits,
Grand Guignol supervillains, thwarted lovers, po-mo
intertextuality, political commentary, time travel, vampires,
absent-minded inventors, a hard-boiled narrator, and lots, lots
more. . . . Suspend your disbelief, find a quiet corner and just
surrender to the storytelling voice of the unstoppable,
ever-resourceful Thursday Next.”
—The Washington Post
“Fforde’s imaginative novel will satiate readers looking for
a Harry Potter-esque tale. . . . The Eyre Affair’s
literary wonderland recalls Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers series, the
works of Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen’s The Kugelmass
Episode.”
—USA Today
“[Thursday Next is] part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part
Dirty Harry.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Delightfully clever . . . Filled with clever wordplay, literary
allusion and bibliowit, The Eyre Affair combines elements
of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, but its quirky charm is all its own.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Jasper Fforde’s first novel, The Eyre Affair, is a spirited
sendup of genre fiction—it’s part hardboiled mystery, part
time-machine caper—that features a sassy, well-read ‘Special
Operative in literary detection’ named Thursday Next, who will put
you more in mind of Bridget Jones than Miss Marple. Fforde
delivers almost every sentence with a sly wink, and he’s got an
easy way with wordplay, trivia, and inside jokes. . . . Fforde’s
verve is rarely less than infectious.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Jasper Fforde’s genre-busting, whoppingly imaginative first novel,
The Eyre Affair, is packed with literary allusions . . . .Thanks to
Fforde’s terrific imagination, this definitely will not be the
winter of our discontent.”
—The Miami Herald
“For sheer inventiveness his book is hard to beat. The Eyre Affair
is an exuberant mélange of crime, comedy and alternative
history.”
—Houston Chronicle
“The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde could hardly be more delightful.
. . . It takes a bold adventurer to play fast and loose with
literature, and that’s what we have in Thursday Next and
Fforde.”
—Newsday
“[Fforde] delivers multiple plot twists, rampant literary
references and streams of wild metafictional invention in a novel
that places literature at the center of the pop-cultural universe.
. . . It all adds up to a brainy, cheerfully twisted
adventure.”
—Time Out New York
“A blend of suspense and silliness, two parts fantasy (think
Alice in Wonderland meet Superman), two parts absurdity (anything
by Carl Hiaasen) and one part mystery (Agatha Christie meets Sue
Grafton).”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Her name is Next. Thursday Next. And her story is as amusing and
intriguing as the summary of her story told within the pages of The
Eyre Affair. Next is a literary detective in a world so enamored
with the written world that Shakespeare’s Richard III is staged
nightly as if it were The Rocky Horror Picture Show . . .
. The novel’s writing flows and the imaginative twists and
turns in Next’s world are handled smoothly.”
—Sun-Sentinel
'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital
narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll,
'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters'
- Time Out London
"What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python
gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high
erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand
finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. 'The Eyre
Affair' is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as
raw, howling farce"― Independent (London)
Adult/High School-A delightful first book in a proposed series set in an alternative and offbeat Britain of 1985 and featuring Literary Detective Thursday Next. England is still fighting the Crimean War with Imperialist Russia, and the prevailing culture is based on literature. When the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit is stolen, it is a high crime indeed, and Next is called in to help catch the culprit. To make matters worse, her "mad as pants" but brilliant uncle has created a machine that could cause all kinds of literary mayhem. This title has a cast of complete nutters. Acheron Hades, the world's third most wanted villain, has just the right mix of evil and charm to make readers look forward to meeting the first and second most wanted. Be warned that minor passersby may come round again in this "mad tea party" of a story. The novel has the surrealism and satire of Douglas Adams, the nonsense and wordplay of Lewis Carroll, and the descriptive detail of Connie Willis. What sets Fforde's work apart, however, is its winsome heroine. This is a highly entertaining mystery with social satire, time travel, fantasy, science fiction, and romance thrown in to the well-written mix.-Jane Halsall, McHenry Public Library District, IL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Surreal and hilariously funny, this alternate history, the debut novel of British author Fforde, will appeal to lovers of zany genre work (think Douglas Adams) and lovers of classic literature alike. The scene: Great Britain circa 1985, but a Great Britain where literature has a prominent place in everyday life. For pennies, corner Will-Speak machines will quote Shakespeare; Richard III is performed with audience participation la Rocky Horror and children swap Henry Fielding bubble-gum cards. In this world where high lit matters, Special Operative Thursday Next (literary detective) seeks to retrieve the stolen manuscript of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. The evil Acheron Hades has plans for it: after kidnapping Next's mad-scientist uncle, Mycroft, and commandeering Mycroft's invention, the Prose Portal, which enables people to cross into a literary text, he sends a minion into Chuzzlewit to seize and kill a minor character, thus forever changing the novel. Worse is to come. When the manuscript of Jane Eyre, Next's favorite novel, disappears, and Jane herself is spirited out of the book, Next must pursue Hades inside Charlotte Bront's masterpiece. The plethora of oddly named characters can be confusing, and the story's episodic nature means that the action moves forward in fits and starts. The cartoonish characters are either all good or all bad, but the villain's comeuppance is still satisfying. Witty and clever, this literate romp heralds a fun new series set in a wonderfully original world. (Jan. 28) Forecast: With a six-city author tour, a well-conceived Web site at www.thursdaynext.com and crossover appeal to Bront fans, this is likely to attract more attention than the usual first genre novel. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
"Neatly delivers alternate history, Monty Pythonesque comedy
skits, Grand Guignol supervillains, thwarted lovers, po-mo
intertextuality, political commentary, time travel, vampires,
absent-minded inventors, a hard-boiled narrator, and lots, lots
more. . . . Suspend your disbelief, find a quiet corner and just
surrender to the storytelling voice of the unstoppable,
ever-resourceful Thursday Next."
-The Washington Post
"Fforde's imaginative novel will satiate readers looking for a
Harry Potter-esque tale. . . . The Eyre Affair's literary
wonderland recalls Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers series, the works of
Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode."
-USA Today
"[Thursday Next is] part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part
Dirty Harry."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Delightfully clever . . . Filled with clever wordplay, literary
allusion and bibliowit, The Eyre Affair combines elements of Monty
Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
but its quirky charm is all its own."
-The Wall Street Journal
"Jasper Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, is a spirited sendup
of genre fiction-it's part hardboiled mystery, part time-machine
caper-that features a sassy, well-read 'Special Operative in
literary detection' named Thursday Next, who will put you more in
mind of Bridget Jones than Miss Marple. Fforde delivers almost
every sentence with a sly wink, and he's got an easy way with
wordplay, trivia, and inside jokes. . . . Fforde's verve is rarely
less than infectious."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Jasper Fforde's genre-busting, whoppingly imaginative first novel,
The Eyre Affair, is packed with literary allusions . . . .Thanks to
Fforde's terrific imagination, this definitely will not be the
winter of our discontent."
-The Miami Herald
"For sheer inventiveness his book is hard to beat. The Eyre Affair
is an exuberant melange of crime, comedy and alternative
history."
-Houston Chronicle
"The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde could hardly be more
delightful. . . . It takes a bold adventurer to play fast and loose
with literature, and that's what we have in Thursday Next and
Fforde."
-Newsday
"[Fforde] delivers multiple plot twists, rampant literary
references and streams of wild metafictional invention in a novel
that places literature at the center of the pop-cultural universe.
. . . It all adds up to a brainy, cheerfully twisted
adventure."
-Time Out New York
"A blend of suspense and silliness, two parts fantasy (think
Alice in Wonderland meet Superman), two parts absurdity (anything
by Carl Hiaasen) and one part mystery (Agatha Christie meets Sue
Grafton)."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Her name is Next. Thursday Next. And her story is as amusing and
intriguing as the summary of her story told within the pages of The
Eyre Affair. Next is a literary detective in a world so enamored
with the written world that Shakespeare's Richard III is staged
nightly as if it were The Rocky Horror Picture Show . . . . The
novel's writing flows and the imaginative twists and turns in
Next's world are handled smoothly."
-Sun-Sentinel
'Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital
narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll,
'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters' - Time
Out London
"What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python
gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high
erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand
finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. 'The Eyre
Affair' is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as
raw, howling farce" Independent
(London)
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