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Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
x, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war--but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity's...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 363 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While the Stupidity Surplus overflows in England, literary detective Thursday Next deals with her defiant assistant, who insists on turning classic literature into reality television, and must also find a way to motivate her teenage son and smooth out the mess being made by the Council of Genres.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 2
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Physical Desc
xii, 399 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Det. Thursday Next is back for another round of time traveling and bookish sleuthing after Fforde's successful debut, The Eyre Affair. Like his earlier novel, this one is set in the U.K., in an alternate version of our universe-one in which time travel is possible and the boundaries between life and literature are porous. Thursday works for Special Ops in the Literary Detectives division. She's made an enemy of the corrupt Goliath Corporation, which...
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