num_pages: 374
description: 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 a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.
language: English
title: The Eyre Affair
titlecomplete: The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
characters: Edward Rochester, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Jane Eyre, Braxton Hicks, Pickwick, Acheron Hades, Wednesday Next, Mrs. Nakajima, Polly Next, Spike Stoker, Joffy Next, Thursday Next, Mycroft Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Jack Schitt, Thursday's Dad (name unknown)
genres: Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Books About Books, Mystery, Time Travel, Adult, Fiction, Alternate History, Humor
ratings_count: 131119
places: England, Wales, Swindon, England
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Penguin Books