Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Eyre Affair / Jasper Fforde / 374 pages

Thursday Next is a literatec, a special operative in literary detection.  She thwarts a plot to alter Jane Eyre and rescues the original manuscript.  Set in 1985 Great Britain, the novel features humorous word plays, time travel, an invention that allows one to enter books, and is rife with literary allusions.

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