Jasper Fforde Lot 4 THURSDAY NEXT PBs

These are all used large paperbacks in good condition. Spines are uncreased, covers are mostly uncreased. The top corner of the last book is bent at the front. There are no marks and few page folds.

About the books:

Additional Information about The Eyre Affair
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2008 Muze Inc.  All rights reserved.

Synopsis
In an alternate 1985, where the Crimean War still rages 130-odd years later, Thursday Next works for a special operations unit that prevents criminals from damaging the world of literature. Though normally a fairly low-stress job, it heats up for Thursday when one of the three most evil villains in the world is accused of permanently altering the Charles Dickens classic MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. And as if that weren't enough, Thursday has more than enough work ahead of her when the scoundrel sets his dastardly sights on the world's most beloved book, JANE EYRE.

Publisher's Note
In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.
 
Industry reviews
"Dark, funny, complex, and inventive, THE EYRE AFFAIR is a breath of fresh air and easily one of the strongest debuts in years."
Locus - Jonathan Strahan (08/20/2001)

"THE EYRE AFFAIR is mostly a collection of jokes, conceits and puzzles. It's smart, frisky and sheer catnip for former English majors....And some of the jokes are clever indeed."
Salon - Laura Miller (01/24/2002)

"This is the oddest combination of genres: a literary thriller/comedy/romance/sci-fi/war novel. Above all, it's a funny book, especially for anyone with any kind of literary background (but you don't have to be an expert; you don't even have to have read JANE EYRE)....The book is paced at the speed of light, and if some of the secondary plot lines seem a little wobbly, well, it really doesn't matter; it's all such good fun. And let's be honest who among us wouldn't love the chance to literally step into the fictional world of our favorite book?"
Literal Mind - Amy C. Rea
 

Additional Information about Lost in a Good Book
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2008 Muze Inc.  All rights reserved.

Synopsis
In this sequel to THE EYRE AFFAIR, literature rules in Fforde's alternate universe-- otherwise known as Wales. The Crimean War is far from over, huge crowds flock to Shakespeare's plays, kids trade bubble gum cards featuring literary figures, and Miss Havisham is still alive and working for the literary police. When Thursday Next's husband is imprisoned in a book, she goes in search of him, barging into everything from THE TRIAL to ALICE IN WONDERLAND in an attempt to get him back.

Publisher's Note
In order to rescue the love of her life from the corrupt multinational Goliath, Thursday seeks out a believed-vanquished enemy from the pages of The Raven and finds unexpected assistance from Great Expectation's Miss Havisham.

Industry reviews
"[L]ively, pun-packed....[An] engagingly skewed comic utopia."
Kirkus Reviews  (02/01/2003)

"There is a certain self-delighted quality to all this cleverness that would probably become annoying if Fforde weren't so resolutely unclever about his own writing....In other words, this isn't literary fiction--which, for a book that uses the great works of English literature literally as its primary location, is a funny sort of diagnosis to have to make....LOST IN A GOOD BOOK is a book in which one isn't allowed to get lost. Fforde doesn't ask that we suspend our disbelief. He encourages disbelief at every turn, while his plot comes back again and again...to the image of Thursday Next finding yet another fantastical means of entering a work of classic literature and getting lost in it. Which for the reader, somehow, is an immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience."
New York Times Book Review - Bruno Maddox (06/22/2003)

Additional Information about Thursday Next in The Well Of Lost Plots
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

Synopsis
Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing for a vacationing character in a truly awful unpublished detective novel, sounds like more fun. But the crime, vice, and general mayhem Thursday discovers top anything she has seen yet. And to make matters just slightly worse, someone seems to want to kill her....

Publisher's Note
Exhausted by her hectic stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, is delighted by a supposed respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, plot devices, grammasites, and a murderer.

Additional Information about Thursday Next in First Among Sequels
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2009 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

Publisher's Note
A fifth installment . . . takes place fourteen years after the 1988 SuperHoop, in a tale in which Thursday finds herself embroiled in cases involving the murders of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple before receiving a death threat of her own.

Shipping to US addresses will be by Media Mail (upgrade to Priority Mail available upon request and payment of extra costs).  I'm mailing from the East Coast, and Media Mail usually takes from 8 to 12 days to the West Coast, but can take up to 3 or 4 weeks. Please take that into consideration.

Combined Shipping Offer

Check out my other items!

Just need one or two?

Often I have extra copies of one or more of the books listed (and many, many other books). If you are just looking for specific books, feel free to email me. If I can supply the books, I'll create an item in my ebay store for you.