Introduction to The Eyre Affair Masterpiece Theatre meets James Bond in The Eyre Affair, the first novel in Jasper Fforde's cheeky sleuth series featuring a book-loving, gun-toting, wit-slinging heroine named Thursday Next. In Thursday's world, an alternate version of London, literature rules popular culture—audiences enact and participate in Richard III for Friday-night fun, thousands of visitors make . · 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/5. Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.
www.doorway.ru: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel () by Fforde, Jasper and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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 * Wall Street Journal * Jasper Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, is a spirited sendup of genre fiction-it's part hardboiled mystery. 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.".
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