The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next 1st Series 1/4
Novel • United Kingdom • 2001
Alternate History • Science Fiction • Mystery
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"The novel is set in an alternate 1985 where the United Kingdom and Imperial Russia have been engaged in the Crimean War for over a century. In this reality, literature holds significant societal importance, with public debates on literary issues sometimes escalating to violence. Thursday Next, a veteran of the Crimean War and a proponent of peace, is a LitTech spy with SpecOps27, specializing in literary crimes. Thursday is offered a position with the secretive SpecOps05 division to pursue the wanted criminal Acheron Hades through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre."