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Your chance to read the first four volumes of one of the most thought-provoking and tremendously humorous epics in modern publishing.Join the quest in THE EYRE AFFAIR, where Fforde introduces the fresh and delightfully original literary detective, Thursday Next.Tags
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Very good, funny literary fantasy/mystery, with time travel and jumping in and out of fiction, in a world where dead poets are pop idols and the Crimean War still continues and the Goliath Corporation watches over you, cradle to grave.
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He worked for many years in the film industry as a camera technician. He was raised in England, he lives & works in Wales. (Publisher Provided) Author Jasper Fforde was born on January 11, 1961 in London, England. He spent numerous years as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on films such as Quills, Golden Eye, and Entrapment. show more His first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. He is the author of the Thursday Next, Nursery Crime and Dragonslayer series and the novel Shades of Gray. In 2004, he won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for The Well of Lost Plots. In 2013, his title The Last Dragonslayer made The New York Times best seller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Thursday Next Chronicles I-IV
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- Thursday Next
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