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In a future Britain where time travel and cloning are everyday, the Office of Narrative Crimes monitors literary crimes. Aerron Hades, the world’s Third Most Wanted Man, hijacks a novel’s manuscript and begins stealing characters from classic works. Thursday Next, a renowned literary detective, must enter a dangerous new reality to rescue the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre" and stop Hades from unraveling the fabric of fiction itself.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy
Authors: Jasper Fforde
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