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Eyre Affair (SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION)
Eyre Affair (SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION)
Price:
£99.99 / $149.99
Format:
UK 1/1 HARDBACK
Signed:
Yes
Publisher:
Hodder
ISBN:
0-340-82047-X
In stock:
3
First edition, first printing UK Hardback copy of Mr Ffordes first novel.
The book is a fantastic read - definitely one of my favourite reads of recent years. Take a pinch of the bizarre, a pinch of history, a pinch of classical literature, , a handful of humour, and throw in a good measure of genius, and hey presto....you have "The Eyre Affair".
To quote...."THis is the 1985 of Thursday Next, a literary detective without equal, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trail of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre herself has been plucked from the novel of the same name, and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage.
She also has to find time to halt the Crimean conflict, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote the Shakespeare plays. Aided and abetted by a cast of characters that includes her time-travelling father, Jack Schitt of the all powerful Goliath corporation, a pet dodo named Pickwick and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday embarks on an adventure that will take your breath away.
A delight for anyone who has ever wondered where bananas come from or why Leigh Delamere motorway services as so peculiarly named."
This copy is signed by the author directly onto the title page.
Wonderful stuff!
