Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping charactersfrom works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Jasper Fforde recently traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

1 A Woman Named Thursday Next	1
2 Gad's Hill	11
3 Back at My Desk	18
4 Acheron Hades	29
5 Search for the Guilty, Punish the Innocent	44
6 Jane Eyre: A Short Excursion into the Novel	63
7 The Goliath Corporation	71
8 Airship to Swindon	77
9 The Next Family	90
10 The Finis Hotel, Swindon	106
11 Polly Flashes Upon the Inward Eye	122
12 SpecOps-27: The Literary Detectives	128
13 The Church at Capel-y-ffin	142
14 Lunch with Bowden	143
15 Hello & Goodbye, Mr. Quaverley	151
16 Sturmey Archer and Felix7	162
17 SpecOps-17: Suckers & Biters	172
18 Landen Again	179
19 The Very Irrev. Joffy Next	192
20 Dr. Runcible Spoon	201
21 Hades & Goliath	209
22 The Waiting Game	216
23 The Drop	220
24 Martin Chuzzlewit Is Reprieved	232
25 Time Enough for Contemplation	238
26 The Earthcrossers	243
27 Hades Finds Another Manuscript	264
28 Haworth House	286
29 Jane Eyre	295
30 A Groundswell of Popular Feeling	300
31 The People's Republic of Wales	303

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