Ebook {Epub PDF} The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

British novelist Jasper Fforde wrote his debut novel The Eyre Affair (), an alternate history novel, after spending nearly fifteen years working in the film industry. According to Fforde, the novel was rejected seventy-six times before being accepted by a publisher. Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim. 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 Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde. Second paragraph of third chapter: I opened the drawer of my desk and pulled out a small mirror. A woman with somewhat ordinary features stared back at me. Her hair was a plain mousy color and of medium length, tied up rather hastily in a ponytail at the back. She had no cheekbones to speak of and her face, I. Visit the Jasper Fforde author page. Dizzyingly clever and joyously funny, Fforde's postmodern comedy thriller is a loving homage to literature bursting with wordplay and wit. The first of the Thursday Next adventures, The Eyre Affair channels Douglas Adams and Monty Python into a surrealist stew centring on the sudden disappearance of Jane Eyre. 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.

The Eyre Affair Audiobook. The first installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and. I read a scrappy, dog-eared paperback of Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair for the first time three years ago, curled up outdoors under a large tree. 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. “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.