One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444713035
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of our Thursdays is Missing written by Jasper Fforde and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth instalment of Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde's sensational Thursday Next series. 'Fforde's books are more than just an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terrible mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of Dickens or Pratchett' - Independent It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worth of her illustrious namesake. The written Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670022526
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of Our Thursdays is Missing written by Jasper Fforde and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A latest entry in the best-selling series finds an imminent war compelling the Council of Genres to enlist the written Thursday to emulate her retired living self on a peace-keeping mission up the Metaphoric River, a journey that reveals a fiendish plot.

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322767956
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of Our Thursdays is Missing written by Jasper Fforde and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444736021
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing Thursday Next written by Jasper Fforde and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101525088
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5 written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1–5 Fall into the world of Thursday Next with the first five novels in the New York Times bestselling series featuring the renowned Special Operative in literary detection who is “part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

Author : Wolfgang Funk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501306189
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Reconstruction written by Wolfgang Funk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 ESSE Junior Scholar Book Award in Literatures in the English Language The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and philosophical development that led to the demise of postmodernism by relating it to the idea of 'authenticity': immediate experience that eludes direct representation. In addition, he provides a clear formal framework with which to identify and classify the features of 'reconstructive literature' by updating the narratological category of 'metafiction', originally established in the 1980s. Based on Werner Wolf's observation of a 'metareferential turn' in contemporary arts and media, he illustrates how the specific use of metareference results in a renegotiation of the specific patterns of literary communication and claims that this renegotiation can be profitably described with the concept of 'reconstruction'. To substantiate this claim, in the second half of the book Funk discusses narrative texts that illustrate this transition from postmodern deconstruction to postmillennial reconstruction. The analyses take in distinguished and prize-winning writers such as Dave Eggers, Julian Barnes, Jennifer Egan and Jasper Fforde. The broad scope of authors, featuring writers from the US as well as the UK, underlines the fact that the reconstructive tendencies and strategies Funk diagnoses are of universal significance for the intellectual and cultural self-image of the global North.

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143113569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thursday Next: First Among Sequels written by Jasper Fforde and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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—from the author of The Constant Rabbit 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.

Author : Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315524511
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and Serial Adaptation written by Shannon Wells-Lassagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276207
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices.

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1844569217
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well Of Lost Plots written by Jasper Fforde and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.