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| Title | : | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) |
| Author | : | Jasper Fforde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 374 pages |
| Published | : | February 25th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published July 19th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Humor. Science Fiction |
Jasper Fforde
Paperback | Pages: 374 pages Rating: 3.9 | 111003 Users | 9893 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | The Eyre Affair |
| ISBN: | 0142001805 (ISBN13: 9780142001806) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.jasperfforde.com/thursdayintro.html |
| Series: | Thursday Next #1 |
| Characters: | Thursday Next, Jane Eyre, Acheron Hades, Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Pickwick, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Braxton Hicks, Mrs. Nakajima, Joffy Next, Polly Next, Wednesday Next, Spike Stoker, Mycroft Next, Edward Rochester |
| Setting: | England,1985 Wales,1985 Swindon, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2002), IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (2002), Dilys Award Nominee (2003), ALA Alex Award (2003), Lincoln Award Nominee (2006) |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 111003 Users | 9893 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1)
This is a thoroughly delightful and brilliant book. I chuckled and chortled all the way through this book; its hilarious. There are many interesting characters and I am eager to read the rest of this series. Im not sure that the successive books will also get 5 stars from me: the clever premise might get a tad old; Ill have to see. This unusual story is a bit difficult to define. It fits multiple genres: sci-fi, mystery, humor, fantasy, and fiction. And the author manages to create an entireWhat fun! An alternate history universe where people are so invested in literature as to fight over it, such as the damn Baconians saying he wrote Shakespeare's plays when it's obvious that he couldn't have (Thursday cogently argues this at one point.) & whole societies devoted to various authors. There are no planes, just 'gas bags', but there are cars & guns. Other things vary, such as Wales is a separate Communist state & the Crimean War is over a century old & still going
(The much longer full review can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the literary genre known as "speculative" fiction; for those not familiar with it, the genre primarily concerns itself with historical questions of "what if?" What if the South had won the Civil War, for example, or the Nazis World War II? What if computers, robots and nuclear weapons had been invented in the 1840s instead of the 1940s? It is a
Have I become a jaded reader? I sometimes catch myself muttering in the middle of a long series of yawns, Havent I read this plot/character/technique before? Or when the author describes their setting, I will lazily flip through my mental inventory of backdrops until, sure enough, I find an old one that it is a good enough fit to reuse. Then Fforde comes along and throws the literary equivalent of a bucket of Arctic cold water in my face. I found myself having to actually work to keep up with
"Somehow Fucked up made it seem more believable; we all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice." This book was a recommendation that arose from a discussion about a non-fiction book about extinction. I have a slight obsession with dodos and had to read The Eyre Affair because of it. "I had been with Boswell and SO-27 for eight years, living in a Maida Vale apartment with Pickwick, a
Really enjoyed the inventiveness of Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair. The premise of the story is that original manuscripts can be stolen and then changed, not just that manuscript, but all copies of say, Jane Eyre. Thus, these original manuscripts are viewed as absolute treasures. There are also literary portals which intersect with the 'real world' which make it possible to change what happens in our favorite novel. And there's also time travel. And an alternate history which skews how we view
This was a fun book set in a very unique and quirky world. It's definitely a mad-cap type book that you can't add any logic to - just take things as they are and go with it! I did feel like I needed to have read more of the classics to get some of the jokes. I never liked the classics and am probably the only person in the world who hasn't read Jane Eyre. Now I don't need to read the book - and I like Fforde's ending for Jane much better in this book!
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