The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)

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If you have read any of the classics of English Literature, you will feel strangely at home in the action-packed alternative universe of Thursday next. And, needless to say, Jane's many fans will find this time-bending cloak-and-dagger romp a pure delight. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide.

The Eyre Affair can be too clever by half, and fiction like this is certainly an acquired taste, but Fforde's verve is rarely less than infectious. Alas, when the manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit is stolen under the eye of surveillance cameras, the SpecOps quickly recognize some diabolical design of Hades and his "fiendish compatriots.Meanwhile, surrealism was only legalized four years earlier, to the dismay of the Raphaelites and others .

The known types of grammasites include adjectivores, which suck all description from an object, and verbisoids, as well as others.Meanwhile, Goliath has been contracted to create a plasma rifle codenamed "STONK" to overpower the Russians. The Eyre Affair is, above all else, a work of science fiction (though in the US it has been cleverly marketed to avoid that dreaded designation). And luckily we see him popping into place a few times, saving the day but also showing a funny paragraph when time freezes!

It was also to start his series featuring the eponymous detective of ‘Thursday Next’ who would deal with crimes set within the realm of literature. Readers who accept the principle of pastiche that underlies the novel's conception will be rewarded with a clever entertainment that works well both as an adventure yarn and as a witty sendup of contemporary trash media. However, she finds Aunt Polly stuck in one of Wordsworth's poems, and learns that Hades has gone into the original text of Jane Eyre carrying the scrap of paper on which Polly is imprisoned.Featuring Inspector Jack Spratt who has been stationed at the the Nursery Crimes division, it’s his job to track down any crimes of a literary nature happening in the world of fiction, like Thursday Nest before him. The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.