Ebook {Epub PDF} The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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. Jasper www.doorway.ru: Grand Central. Overview Welcome to the website. Who I am and What I do. The Constant Rabbit UK: 2nd July , USA Sept The Great Troll War 4th Dragonslayer Book. UK: 9th Sept Jasperland: Isolation jottings from. the Hills of Wales.

Jasper Fforde. Read by Elizabeth Sastre. HighBridge. Slightly abridged. 6 tapes. 10 hrs. $ Cardboard; plot, reader, author notes. SA *. A wild, delightful romp for lovers of classic literature, history, action-adventure, SF and wordplay, Fforde's tale is set in an England where cloned pets are the norm. The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times best-selling author Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose. 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.

“Jasper Fforde’s first novel, The Eyre Affair, is a spirited sendup of genre fiction—it’s part hardboiled mystery, part time-machine caper—that features a sassy, well-read ‘Special Operative in literary detection’ named Thursday Next, who will put you more in mind of Bridget Jones than Miss Marple. Fforde delivers almost every sentence with a sly wink, and he’s got an easy way with wordplay, trivia, and inside jokes. Fforde received over seventy rejection letters from publishers before his first novel The Eyre Affair was finally accepted by Hodder Stoughton in July The novel is set in , but in a reality alternate to our own. 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 literary pilgrimages to gawk at original manuscripts, and missionaries travel door.