539 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2002 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-4293-1
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OCLC Number:
49403646

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The Eyre Affair

Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . . Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives …

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  • Women detectives -- Wales -- Fiction.
  • Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
  • Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Fiction.
  • Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
  • Books and reading -- Fiction.
  • Censorship -- Fiction.
  • Large type books.
  • Wales -- Fiction.