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The Eyre affair : a novel / Jasper Fforde.

Fforde, Jasper. (Author).

Summary:

Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where someone has begun kidnapping characters from works of literature. When this madman plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday Next -- our resourceful heroine and renowned Special Operative in literary detection -- faces the challenge of her career. She must track down the world's Third Most Wanted criminal and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.

Record details

ISBN: 0670030643
ISBN: 0142001805
Physical Description: viii, 374 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2002.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	1. A Woman Named Thursday Next 1 -- 2. Gad's Hill 11 -- 3. Back at My Desk 18 -- 4. Acheron Hades 29 -- 5. Search for the Guilty, Punish the Innocent 44 -- 6. Jane Eyre: A Short Excursion into the Novel 63 -- 7. Goliath Corporation 71 -- 8. Airship to Swindon 77 -- 9. Next Family 90 -- 10. Finis Hotel, Swindon 106 -- 11. Polly Flashes Upon the Inward Eye 122 -- 12. SpecOps-27: The Literary Detectives 128 -- 13. Church at Capel-y-ffin 142 -- 14. Lunch with Bowden 143 -- 15. Hello & Goodbye, Mr. Quaverley 151 -- 16. Sturmey Archer & Felix7 162 -- 17. SpecOps-17: Suckers & Biters 172 -- 18. Landen Again 179 -- 19. Very Irrev. Joffy Next 192 -- 20. Dr. Runcible Spoon 201 -- 21. Hades & Goliath 209 -- 22. Waiting Game 216 -- 23. Drop 220 -- 24. Martin Chuzzlewit Is Reprieved 232 -- 25. Time Enough for Contemplation 238 -- 26. Earthcrossers 243 -- 27. Hades Finds Another Manuscript 264 -- 28. Haworth House 286 -- 29. Jane Eyre 295 -- 30. A Groundswell of Popular Feeling 300 -- 31. People's Republic of Wales 303 -- 32. Thornfield Hall 318 -- 33. Book Is Written 329 -- 34. Nearly the End of Their Book 344 -- 35. Nearly the End of Our Book 351 -- 36. Married 366.
Target Audience Note:	780L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 16 69795.