Jaspar Fforde (2 results)

Condition: Trade paperback, Fine, Larry Rostant (illustrator). London: New English Library:, 2001. Trade paperback, Fine, 384 pp. Cover artwork by: Larry Rostant Fforde?s first novel. ?There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without equal, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trail of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them ransom. Jane Eyre herself has been plucked from the novel of the same name, and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. She also has to find time to halt the ongoing Crimean conflict, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare?s plays. Aided and abetted by a cast of characters that includes her time-traveling father, Jack Schitt of the all-powerful Goliath Corporation, a pet dodo named Pickwick and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday embarks on an adventure that will take your breath away.? If the damn thing is half as good as it sounds - it?s terrific.

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