The Eyre Affair

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The Eyre Affair is a comic fantasy detective novel set in an alternate 1980s England where literary works can be entered and altered, following literary detective Thursday Next as she pursues a criminal inside the world of Jane Eyre.

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instanceOf alternate history novel
novel
antagonist Acheron Hades NERFINISHED
author Jasper Fforde NERFINISHED
awardNomination Wodehouse Prize longlist NERFINISHED
character Acheron Hades NERFINISHED
Edward Rochester NERFINISHED
Jack Schitt NERFINISHED
Landen Park-Laine NERFINISHED
Mycroft Next NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
coverArtist Paul Kidby NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverseFeature literary texts can be altered from within
literary works can be physically entered
genre alternate history
comic fantasy
detective fiction
metafiction
hasAdaptation stage adaptation
hasSequel Lost in a Good Book NERFINISHED
isbn 0-340-79459-7
literaryForm prose
literaryReference Jane Eyre NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Thursday Next NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor blending literary satire with detective fiction
metafictional use of classic literature
organizationInFiction Jurisfiction NERFINISHED
SpecOps NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
plotElement pursuit of a criminal inside the world of Jane Eyre
positionInSeries first novel
protagonist Thursday Next NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2001
publisher Hodder & Stoughton NERFINISHED
The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
series Thursday Next series NERFINISHED
settingPlace England NERFINISHED
Swindon NERFINISHED
settingTime alternate 1980s
subjectMatter alternate realities
literature
time travel
targetAudience adult readers

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Jasper Fforde notableWork The Eyre Affair