Lost in a Good Book : A Thursday Next Novel Paperback - 2004
by Jasper Fforde
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The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with "The Eyre Affair" continues with Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next.
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- Title Lost in a Good Book : A Thursday Next Novel
- Author Jasper Fforde
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 399
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2004
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0142004030I3N00
- ISBN 9780142004036 / 0142004030
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Fantasy fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002071304
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The second installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens’s Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe’s “The Raven.” What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. It’s another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Fforde’s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!
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Categories
- Fiction & Literature Alternative History Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Contemporary Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Modern Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Mystery & Thrillers Mystery Crime Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Mystery & Thrillers Mystery Women Sleuths
- Fiction & Literature Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy
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- New York Times, 03/14/2004, Page 24