The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)

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Need I say any more about The Eyre Affair? Except, perhaps, to add that solving these and other mysteries will take Thursday Next into communist-controlled Wales and even stranger realms. Reviewers have compared Fforde to other authors, including Woody Allen, [8] [11] Sara Paretsky, [7] and Connie Willis. [10] One critic wondered if Fforde was more " Monty Python crossed with Terry Pratchett, or J. K. Rowling mixed with Douglas Adams." [3] The novel was praised for its fast-paced action, [7] [11] wordplay, [7] [12] and "off-centre humour". [3] In the parallel universe constructed by Jasper Fforde in his novel The Eyre Affair, Europe and Imperial Russia have been at war for more than a century. As the Crimean War rages on England itself is under the control of the Goliath Corporation, a weapons company with questionable motives, while Wales is a completely separate socialist nation. In this fictional universe literature plays a much more important role than in the real world, and even has a department specifically set up to protect classic texts. Crimean War veteran and literary detective Thursday Next is temporarily promoted after the theft of the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit because she is one of the few people that have seen the suspected thief, Acheron Hades, and would likely be able to provide a positive identification should the unit get a chance confront him. The detective finds herself face to face with Hades sooner than anticipated, but he manages to avoid capture and Next soon realizes that their story will be longer than she had initially prepared. After the Jane Eyre manuscript is stolen as well Thursday also discovers that the boundaries between her world and the literary world are less definite than she could have imagined as she finds herself being pulled into the novel itself to protect the characters and insure the safety of the stories outcome.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. ” If a character cannot or does not wish to bookjump, they will have to utilize a method of private transportation. The only such transportation known is that of TransGenre Taxis, a bookjumping taxi service that may be used for a monetary fee. Newspapers are the second choice at receiving news in BookWorld. The primary newspaper in the BookWorld is called The Word. Specific newsletters, such as Moveable Type, the official newsletter of Jurisfiction, may apply to certain groups of characters.Meanwhile, surrealism was only legalized four years earlier, to the dismay of the Raphaelites and others ..... Lccn 2001043775 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9496 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000018 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-01-11 03:03:35 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40031910 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier SO-27 isn't the most glamorous department (as the high number suggests), but literature is taken fairly seriously in this alternate reality. The Eyre Affair explores the possibility of time travel and the ability to enter works of literature, therefore illustrating the chance of infinite alternate endings. Although there may be a number of people who are unhappy with the ending of many classic novels, do you think they would choose to change the outcome if given the chance?

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Other small asides are also excellent, from the surrealist movement to the pets to the all too rare Will-Speak machines ("officially known as a Shakespeare Soliloquy Vending Automaton"). A) pop science fiction novel with brains and sass. (...) The Eyre Affair can be too clever by half, and fiction like this is certainly an acquired taste, but Fforde's verve is rarely less than infectious." - Kera Bolonik, The New York Times Book Review Whilst he suffered a number of rejections early on with his first novel, largely due to its very different and highly inventive style, Jasper Fforde soon started receiving the recognition he deserved as a writer. Winning the Wodehouse Prize in 2004 for comic fiction, he gained critical attention for his novel ‘The Well of Lost Plots’. Infusing elements of wordplay into his stories has ensured he’s a writer of great comic potential with plenty of humor and wit. This is something that’s run throughout his career, affording his work an irreverent and intelligent style that both readers and critics have warmed to. Incorporating parody and meta-fiction into his books, he’s managed to provide a sense of depth unlike no other that almost gives his novels a life of their very own. Not only that, but he is also well regarded for his short-stories as well, which have been included in prestigious publications such as ‘The Guardian’. Continuing to write, there is plenty more on the horizon for Jasper Fforde as a writer, as he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. The Big Over Easy The book was generally acclaimed, with critics calling it "playfully irreverent", [4] "delightfully daft", [5] "whoppingly imaginative", [6] and "a work of... startling originality". [5]

a b c d e Ogle, Connie (25 January 2002). " The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde". The Miami Herald . Retrieved 30 October 2008.John Sutherland (26 July 2003). "If it's Thursday it must be the valley of death". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 November 2007. Individually, what do you guys think about the power of the author? How much or little does he/she have? The Goliath Corporation is a megalithic company that appears to make many of the goods in this alternate world and also acts as a de facto shadow government, being able to take over important police investigations. In November 2010 he produced The Last Dragonslayer, the first novel in a new series. It is a young-adult (YA) fantasy novel about a teenage orphan Jennifer Strange [9] which has now been adapted for television. [10] Two further books have been published in the series, The Song of the Quarkbeast (2011) and The Eye of Zoltar (2014). The series was originally planned as a trilogy, [11] but a fourth book in the series was announced in 2014, The Great Troll War (2021). [12] Short stories [ edit ]