An edition of The Eyre Affair (2001)

The Eyre Affair

A Thursday Next Novel

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An edition of The Eyre Affair (2001)

The Eyre Affair

A Thursday Next Novel

  • 3.7 (25 ratings) ·
  • 65 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 37 Have read

The Eyre Affair

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. Next up in the Thursday Next series: Lost in a Good Book. Read more about it at thursdaynext.com.

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English
Pages
384

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Edition Availability
Cover of: L'affaire Jane Eyre (Thursday Next vol. 1)
L'affaire Jane Eyre (Thursday Next vol. 1)
2005-05-19, 10
Cover of: Der Fall Jane Eyre
Der Fall Jane Eyre: Roman
2004, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.
in German - Dt. Erstausg.
Cover of: The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
February 25, 2003, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: The Eyre affair
The Eyre affair: a novel
2003, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Eyre Affair
Eyre Affair: a novel
2002, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: The Eyre affair
The Eyre affair
2001, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Eyre Affair
Eyre Affair
2001, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Eyre Affair
Eyre Affair
July 19, 2001, New English Library Ltd, New English Library
Paperback
Cover of: The Eyre affair
The Eyre affair
2001, Hodder & Stoughton
in English

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First Sentence

"MY FATHER had a face that could stop a clock."

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Series
Thursday Next (1)

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Open Library
OL7360210M
Internet Archive
eyreaffairthursd00ffor
ISBN 10
0142001805
ISBN 13
9780142001806
Library Thing
4921
Goodreads
27003

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