The "New York Times" bestseller is the first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative.
The "New York Times" bestseller is the first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative.
The New York Times bestseller is the first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative.
“"[Thursday Next is] part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)”
"[Thursday Next is] part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry." (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times")
JASPER FFORDE, the?author of the best-selling?Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, has a devoted worldwide fan base for his entertaining and original novels. He lives with his family in Wales. -->
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 BrontA'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.
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