Thursday Next #1
Penguin
March 2003
On Sale: February 25, 2003
Featuring: Thursday Next
384 pages ISBN: 0142001805 EAN: 9780142001806 Paperback Add to Wish List
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 Brontë'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.