The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 19 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next—a New York Times bestseller!In Jasper Fforde's 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. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Mystery fans and literature nerds alike will adore this hilariously meta detective story. It’s 1985 in an alternate-universe Britain. How alternate? Well, everybody’s obsessed with classic literature, disagreements about Surrealism spark riots in the streets, and criminals like Acheron Hades have discovered that original manuscripts contain portals into the books themselves, causing havoc and changing popular stories. Luckily, plucky police detective Thursday Next is hot on Hades’ trail—with the help of her grumpy time-traveler father. Jasper Fforde has created a brilliantly fun mystery with shades of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Even with all the laughs, Thursday is a likable and dogged detective who takes her work seriously, and narrator Susan Duerden perfectly captures that in her no-nonsense, police procedural–style delivery. Strap in for a wild and exciting listen.
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