Eyre Affair (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

school & library binding, 400 pages

Published Feb. 25, 2003 by Turtleback Books.

ISBN:
978-0-613-62901-0
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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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Review of 'Eyre Affair (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

So the plot of this was moderately convoluted and things wrapped up a bit quickly at the end, and the entirety of it was sometimes a bit difficult to take entirely seriously, but I really loved this.

This universe is a place I would love to live. Everybody in it loves books. Literary topics are almost the default conversation. Everyone has an opinion on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. The plot hinges, rather evidently from the title, on Jane Eyre. Somehow, none of this comes across as pretentious, which is tricky when we are dealing rather exclusively with classics. Literature isn't just serious business (and in this world "defending the canon" takes on a whole new meaning), it's also casual fun.

Tuesday herself was fun to read about. She sometimes rushed in where it was foolish, and her romance issues were, as is common, almost entirely of her own making …

Review of 'Eyre Affair' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

One of the quick impulse reads of the year which I enjoyed start to finish and gave four stars to without a second thought. Special Operative Thursday Next, in an alternate England, works for the LiteraTec office and has for years, but the theft of an original Dickens manuscript turns what is usually a desk job into an exciting adventure. I loved the villain in the story - he was evil and not redeemable; it was fantastic. The romance was just the way I like it, and the tie-ins to Jane Eyre were delightful, Bronte's work being one of my favorites. Unlike the last book I read which was supposed to have been "witty" and "literary," I enjoyed every page of this one. It truly was witty and so exciting that it inspired me to have my own SpecOps dream (I was SO-5 too). The Eyre Affair also initiated the …

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