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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair

FantasyLiterary Fiction
Pages
400
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

In a Britain where time travel and cloning are commonplace, literature is the ultimate battleground. When a notorious criminal steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kidnaps Jane Eyre herself from the pages of Brontë's novel, it's up to literary detective Thursday Next to jump into the book and save the day. She'll need all her wits to navigate a world where fiction and reality blur, and literary crimes have real-world consequences.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

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Genres

Fantasy Literary Fiction Mystery Time Travel Comic Fiction Humor Steampunk Contemporary Literature Historical Fiction

Authors

J
Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, born in London in 1961 and now living in Wales. After working as a focus puller on films including GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro, he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001, after 76 publisher rejections. He is best known for the Thursday Next series, a run of literary comic fantasies set in an alternate Britain where characters can be entered inside books. He has also written the Nursery Crime novels featuring detective Jack Spratt, the dystop...

R
Roxane Azimi

Roxane Azimi is the author of The Eyre Affair, a sharp and witty novel that plays with literary history. If you enjoy clever stories that twist familiar tales, you'll want to pick this one up.

Characters

Thursday NextProtagonist
Acheron HadesAntagonist
Jane EyreCameo
All characters in The Eyre Affair

Frequently asked questions

  • Did the author write this as a book from the start?

    The story originated as a screenplay before being adapted into a novel, a process that spanned several years and multiple writing technologies.

  • Why was Jane Eyre chosen as the central literary work?

    The author selected this specific novel because it is widely recognized and contains dramatic elements like romance and a burning building that suited the plot requirements.

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