Lost in a good book : a novel / Jasper Fforde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fforde, Jasper.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Next, Thursday (Fictitious character).

Women detectives--Great Britain--Fiction.

Women detectives.

Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.

Fiction.

Fiction--Authorship.

Great Britain.

Books and reading--Fiction.

Books and reading.

Time travel--Fiction.

Time travel.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Fantasy fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 399 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin, 2004.

Summary:

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 Dicken'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. Her adventures as a renowned Special Operative in literary detection have left Thursday Next yearning for a rest. But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. There she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham, the famous man-hater from Dickens's Great Expectations, who teaches her to book-jump like a pro. If she retrieves a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe's "The Raven," she thinks Goliath might return her lost love, Landen. But her latest mission is endlessly complicated. Not only are there side trips into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of 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.

Contents:

Adrian Lush Show

Special operations network

Cardenio unbound

Five coincidences, seven Irma Cohens and one confused Neanderthal

Vanishing hitchhikers

Five coincidences, seven Irma Cohens and one confused Thursday next

Family

White horse, uffington, picnics, for the use of

Mr. Stiggins and SO-1

More things stay the same

Lack of differences

Granny next

At home with my memories

Mount Pleasant

Gravitube

Curiouser & curiouser in Osaka

Interview with the Cat

Miss Havisham

Trial of Fraulein N

Bargain books

Yorrick Kaine

Les artes modernes de Swindon '85

Travels with my father

Fun with Spike

Performance-related pay, Miles Hawke & Norland Park

Roll call at jurisfiction

Assignment one: Bloophole filled in great expectations

Landen and Joffy again

"Raven"

Rescued

Cardenio rebound

Dream topping

End of life as we know it

Dawn of life as we know it

Well of lost plots.

Notes:

Sequel to: The Eyre affair.

ISBN:

0142004030

9780142004036

OCLC:

54475957