

An edition of Lost in a Good Book (2002)
By Jasper Fforde
Publish Date
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Publisher
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Language
eng
Pages
399
Description:
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with 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 books. 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.
subjects: Fiction, Thursday Next (Fictitious character), Books and reading, Authorship, Characters and characteristics in literature, Women detectives, Time travel, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Next, thursday (fictitious character), fiction, English Fantasy Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Mystery fiction, Criminal investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Inspectrices de police, Romans, nouvelles, Roman, Art d'écrire, Livres et lecture
People: Thursday Next
Places: Great Britain