tailieunhanh - The Eyre Affair

Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affair puts you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard. Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable-- someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence | The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair scanned by Ginevra corrected by b0rdR Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy Jasper Fforde s outrageous The Eyre Affair puts you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard. Fforde s heroine Thursday Next lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens novels to ransom entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour Styx moves on to the nation s most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester s Thornfield Hall where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames. Copyright 2001 by Jasper Fforde The right of Jasper Fforde to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton A division of Hodder Headline A New English Library Paperback Original 2468 10 9753 I All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons living or dead