Lost in a good book : a novel / Jasper Fforde.
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2004Description: xii, 399, 15 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0142004030 (pbk.); 9780142004036 (pbk.)Other title: Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel [Other title]Subject(s): Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Women detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction | Books and reading -- Fiction | Time travel -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Mystery fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PR6106.F67 | T48 2004Summary: Her adventures as a renowned Special Operative in literary detection have left Thursday Next yearning for a rest. But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. There she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham, the famous man-hater from Dickens's Great expectations, who teaches her to book-jump like a pro. If she retrieves a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe's "The raven," she thinks Goliath might return her lost love, Landen. But her latest mission is endlessly complicated. Not only are there side trips into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The tale of the flopsy bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.
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| FIC/FARMER The lord of Opium / | FIC/FARMER The house of the scorpion / | FIC/FEINSTEIN Foul trouble / | FIC/FFORDE Lost in a good book : | FIC/FITZGERALD The great Gatsby / | FIC/FITZPATRICK Crescendo / | FIC/FITZPATRICK Hush, hush / |
Sequel to: The Eyre affair.
Includes excerpt from the author's book: One of our Thursdays is missing.
Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
Her adventures as a renowned Special Operative in literary detection have left Thursday Next yearning for a rest. But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. There she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham, the famous man-hater from Dickens's Great expectations, who teaches her to book-jump like a pro. If she retrieves a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe's "The raven," she thinks Goliath might return her lost love, Landen. But her latest mission is endlessly complicated. Not only are there side trips into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The tale of the flopsy bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.
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