The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)

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a b c d e f g Waldren, Murray (21 September 2002). "The Fforde Ffenomenon". The Australian . Retrieved 30 October 2008. In England sind schon zwei weitere Bände mit Thursdays Abenteuern erschienen, wir müssen noch ein wenig warten, bis der schlaue, herrliche Spaß weitergeht." - Tobias Gohlis, Die Zeit Jasper Fforde's fascinating first novel reads like a Jules Verne story told by Lewis Carroll." - Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

His published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot. The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication. [5]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’s verve is rarely less than infectious.” Perhaps it's peculiar that when presented with so many new options I turned to an old favourite as my first Kindle book. But The Eyre Affair is one of very few books that's perfectly appropriate for the medium, taking as its theme the ability to be transported by literature into innumerable other worlds. Jasper Fforde’s beloved New York Timesbestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit The Eyre Affair shows a great combination of humour thriller, sci-fi, detective and fantasy, in my opinion this book really takes the fantasy fiction genre further. I know I am going to repeat myself but this book is how Thursday would have said it “mad as pants”. It combines some great elements that truly make this book comes to life in more than one dimension. Combining funny and witty dialogues but also numerous literary ideas with the bookworms and names of several of the characters make this a terrific read and should be compulsory for everyone. You won’t regret this.

Landen Parke-Laine met Thursday Next when they were both fighting in the Crimean War. He fell in love with her and became her brother Anton’s best friend. Anton was killed during the Charge of the Light-Armored Brigade and Landen lost his leg. Landen gave evidence that proved that Anton had made a disastrous mistake and sent his soldiers the wrong way and into the guns of the enemy. Thursday could not forgive him for his betrayal and they did not speak for ten years until she returned to Swindon. Landen had become a successful author and was engaged to be married to Daisy Mutlar. Thursday realizes her mistake and plans to stop Landen’s wedding. Before she can summon her courage, another party brings the wedding to an end and subsequently Thursday agrees to marry Landen. The wedding takes place one month later. Acheron Hades There is another 1985, where London’s criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of a new crime wave’s Mr Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you , and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Along similar lines, how much right do readers have to appropriate published works and create something new out of them? Are adaptations any less valuable as works in their own right because they originally took from something else? People say we're just Renaissancites causing trouble, but I've seen Baroque kids, Raphaelites, Romantics and Mannerists here tonight. It's a massive show of classical artistic unity against these frivolous bastards who cower beneath the safety of the word "progress." ' "A scene in which Mycroft shows Thursday his inventions is typical: there's great stuff here -- the chameleon car and especially the translating carbon paper -- but other jokes fall flat. While reading The Eyre Affair, the fact that it was published originally as a young adult novel is something to be considered. In some ways, it allows Fforde to get away with breaking several rules of literature that usually deter members of a more mature audience of traditional readers (such as the distractingly inconsistent POV, the uncomfortably cliché dialogue, etc.), but the labeling of The Eyre Affair serves more purpose than a simple excuse.

SO-27 isn't the most glamorous department (as the high number suggests), but literature is taken fairly seriously in this alternate reality. Branching off from the Thursday Next series, whilst being set within the same universe, this novel was originally published in 2005 on the 1st of January through the Penguin publishing house. Employing his trademarked wit and irreverence once again, he this time sets up a new series set within the ‘Nursery Crime’ division, this one being the first entry. With more to come, this helped establish a new tone with new characters, whilst also keeping ties to the original series and expanding on the premises throughout. The Eyre Affair is, above all else, a work of science fiction (though in the US it has been cleverly marketed to avoid that dreaded designation). 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. The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”So, Dear Reader, suspend your disbelief, find a quiet corner and just surrender to the storytelling voice of the unstoppable, ever-resourceful Thursday Next: Shades of Grey, the first novel in a new series, was published December 2009 in the United States and January 2010 in the United Kingdom.