The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair
Детективная фантастика
Автор: Ффорде Джаспер
Серия: Thursday Next #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
Издатель: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0142001805
Город: 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
Добавил: Admin 4 Апр 12
Проверил: Admin 4 Апр 12
Формат:  FB2 (283 Kb)  RTF (295 Kb)  TXT (218 Kb)  HTML (284 Kb)  EPUB (488 Kb)  MOBI (1474 Kb)  JAR (284 Kb)  JAD (0 Kb)

  • Currently 0/5

Рейтинг: 0/5 (Всего голосов: 0)

Аннотация

Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens’ enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England’s cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom.
Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only changes that one book, but Hades has escalated his thievery. He has begun attacking the original manuscripts, thus changing all copies in print and enraging the reading public. That’s why Special Operations Network has a Literary Division, and it is why one of its operatives, Thursday Next, is on the case.
Thursday is utterly delightful. She is vulnerable, smart, and, above all, literate. She has been trying to trace Hades ever since he stole Mr. Quaverley from the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and killed him. You will only remember Mr. Quaverley if you read Martin Chuzzlewit prior to 1985. But now Hades has set his sights on one of the plums of literature, Jane Eyre, and he must be stopped.
How Thursday achieves this and manages to preserve one of the great books of the Western canon makes for delightfully hilarious reading. You do not have to be an English major to be pulled into this story. You’ll be rooting for Thursday, Jane, Mr. Rochester—and a familiar ending.

Комментарии к книге "The Eyre Affair"

Комментарий не найдено. Будьте первыми!
Чтобы оставить комментарий или поставить оценку книге Вам нужно зайти на сайт или зарегистрироваться