Thursday Next in First Among Sequels
A Novel
New York : Viking, 2007.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels , Fforde's famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few--all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursday's zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing . Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Fforde's latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot . Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!
Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels , Fforde's famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few--all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursday's zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing . Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Fforde's latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot . Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!
Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Subjects:
Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0670038717
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Fforde | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Fiction | In |