First Among Sequels

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First Among Sequels is a comic fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde that continues the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in a metafictional world where books and reality intertwine.

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instanceOf metafiction
novel
author Jasper Fforde NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Landen Parke-Laine NERFINISHED
Thursday Next NERFINISHED
Thursday Next (fictional written version) NERFINISHED
featuresOrganization Jurisfiction NERFINISHED
SpecOps NERFINISHED
follows Something Rotten NERFINISHED
genre comic fantasy
fantasy
metafiction
hasAlternateEditionISBN 9780670038718
hasHumorStyle literary parody
satire
wordplay
hasISBN 9780340835753
hasMetafictionalElement characters aware they are in books
interaction between readers and fictional characters
hasSequel One of Our Thursdays Is Missing NERFINISHED
hasTheme bureaucracy in fictional universes
commercialization of literature
family and responsibility
identity and authorship
isFifthInSeries Thursday Next series NERFINISHED
language English
literarySetting BookWorld NERFINISHED
Swindon NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Thursday Next NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
pageCountApprox 400
partOf Thursday Next series NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2007
publisher Hodder & Stoughton NERFINISHED
The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
series Thursday Next NERFINISHED
subjectMatter alternate realities
interplay between fiction and reality
literary detective work
time travel
targetAudience adult readers

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Jasper Fforde notableWork First Among Sequels