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Lost in a Good Book

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Author Jasper Fforde
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series A Thursday Next Novel
Genre(s) Fantasy novel
Publisher Viking
Publication date 2002
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 371 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-340-82467-0
Preceded by The Eyre Affair
Followed by The Well of Lost Plots

Lost in a Good Book is a fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January, 1961) is an English Novelist. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Fantasy literature is Fantasy in written form Historically speaking the majority of fantasy works have been literature Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Viking Press is an American Publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. The Well of Lost Plots is the third book by Jasper Fforde and the Fantasy literature is Fantasy in written form Historically speaking the majority of fantasy works have been literature Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January, 1961) is an English Novelist. It won the IMBA 2004 Dilys Award. [1]

Plot introduction

It is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair. Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January, 1961) is an English Novelist. Thursday Next is the main Protagonist in a series of Comic fantasy, Alternate history Novels by the British author Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. Lost uses a variety of literary allusions as it follows Thursday through a vast government conspiracy.

Plot summary

Three months after the events of The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is happily married to Landen Parke-Laine and working as a literary detective out of Swindon. SpecOps is a fictional overarching British governmental force in Jasper Fforde 's Thursday Next series of novels Swindon ( is a large town in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in the South West of England, midway between Bristol (64 km / 40 miles One day, Thursday meets her father, a renegade ChronoGuard, who informs her that the world's going to end in a flood of Dream Topping, a whipped cream-like confection, when one of her uncle Mycroft's inventions goes out of control. Cream with 30% or more fat can be turned into whipped cream by mixing it with air Mycroft has destroyed his Prose Portal after the events of The Eyre Affair, and retired leaving the invention business in the hands of his two well-meaning but inept sons, Orville and Wilbur.

Thursday is sent with her partner, Bowden Cable, to the mansion of a front-runner in the up-coming election for President. In his extensive library, they discover an original manuscript of Shakespeare's lost play Cardenio. William Shakespeare ( baptised The History of Cardenio is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company in 1613 Tests done at the station determine its authenticity, and it seems to have appeared just in time to help its discoverer, Yorrick Kaine, to win the election (thanks to the "Shakespeare vote"). When he releases the play to the general public, victory is all but guaranteed.

Thursday had marooned Jack Schitt in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven at the end of The Eyre Affair, and his employer, The Goliath Corporation, a Big Brother-like agency which is the de facto ruler of England, wants him back. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, " The Raven " is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845 The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. Big Brother is a Fictional character in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the They hire a ChronoGuard agent named Lavoisier to eradicate Thursday's husband Landen from the time line, as a hostage to blackmail Thursday into retrieving Schitt. Landen vanishes, and only Thursday remembers him. But she also has physical proof -- she's pregnant with their child. Pregnancy ( Latin graviditas) is the carrying of one or more offspring known as a Fetus or Embryo, inside the Uterus of a Female Without Mycroft's Prose Portal, however, she'll have to learn a new way to travel between books.

During one of her dreams, she encounters Landen in her memory, who spurs her to travel to Osaka to meet Mrs. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Nakajima, a woman who's learned how to travel through books. Mrs Nakajima introduces her to bookjumping, the method by which one enters the fictional world without the Prose Portal: those with an inherent talent for it can literally read themselves into the world of fiction and Thursday does so. It turns out that there is a police force within literature (both fiction and non-fiction), Jurisfiction, which employs both fictional characters and real people ranging from the Cheshire cat and the Red Queen to Ambrose Bierce and Voltaire, and ensures that literature continues in an orderly fashion. The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat appearing in Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Red Queen's Hypothesis, Red Queen, " Red Queen's race " or " Red Queen Effect " is an Evolutionary Hypothesis Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24 1842 &ndash 1914? was an American Editorialist Journalist, short-story writer and Satirist. François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778) better known by the Pen name Voltaire, was a French Next herself is apprenticed as a rookie Jurisfiction agent to Miss Havisham, the abandoned bride from Dickens' novel Great Expectations. Miss Havisham is a significant character in the Charles Dickens Novel, Great Expectations ( 1861) A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Great Expectations is a Novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December Thursday is, however, in some legal trouble in the literary world for having changed the ending of Jane Eyre, in The Eyre Affair. Jane Eyre (dʒeɪn ɛə by Charlotte Brontë, published by Smith Elder & Company of London in 1847, is one of the most influential and The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde.

After a preliminary hearing in the Byzantine world of Kafka's The Trial and saving Abel Magwitch from drowning before the beginning of Great Expectations, Havisham and Thursday part ways and the latter character enters "The Raven" and retrieves Jack Schitt. The Trial ( Der Process) is a novel by The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well But Goliath have no intention of keeping their word, and they trap Thursday in a Corporation warehouse without any reading material with which she can read herself out. Miss Havisham finds her there when it's discovered that the copy of Cardenio which Thursday found in the real world was stolen from the Great Library (a building where copies of every book ever written or conceived of are kept) by another literary character. Miss Havisham uses one of Thursday's clothing labels to read the pair back to the Great Library.

Guided through her dreams and memories by Landen, Thursday found the event that caused the Dream Topping accident -- or rather, the person: Aornis Hades, Acheron Hades' sister who wants revenge on Thursday for Acheron's death in The Eyre Affair. The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well Aornis can edit people's memories so they don't remember her presence, which is why Thursday needed help from Landen to find Aornis in her own memory.

Cardenio is retrieved and the Dream Topping is stopped, but Aornis escapes and now Goliath, the ChronoGuard, and SpecOps all seek to apprehend Thursday on Goliath's contrived charge of stealing corporate secrets. SpecOps is a fictional overarching British governmental force in Jasper Fforde 's Thursday Next series of novels At the book's end, Aornis pressures Thursday to kill herself so that Aornis will prevent the world from turning into Dream Topping. Thursday's father takes her place in the nick of time and sacrifices himself as Mycroft's Dream Topping making machine breaks down and begins producing the goo continuously; he takes all the Dream Topping to the dawn of Earth, where it--and he--will supply the organic nutrients needed to create life.

Afterwards, Thursday returns home and finds her father there. She is confused until she realizes that, being a time traveller, he will sacrifice himself much later in his future, even though it was just a little while ago in hers. Now that she is wanted by Goliath, the ChronoGuard, and Aornis, her father offers to place her in an alternate reality for a while (our reality, ironically) while she gives birth to Landen's baby. Refusing her father's offer, Thursday travels to a book in the Well of Lost Plots -- a subdivision of the Great Library that contains unpublished and unfinished works -- in order to take a year's maternity leave with her memory of Landen.

Characters in "Lost in a Good Book"

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