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 ' part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry.' -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 'Delightfully clever. 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. '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. 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.

But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bront 's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. 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. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it's a bibliophile's dream. The first installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England -from the author of Early Riser Fans of Douglas Adams and P.

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