Thursday Next (Full Unabridged Series) – Jasper Fforde Free Audiobook

Written by Jasper Fforde
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Unabridged

Thursday Next is weird. Jasper Fforde wrote her that way, and she sticks with it throughout her series. One note, for eagle eyed readers/listeners: the fact that there are no Chapter 13s in this collection isn’t an accident. The author refuses to write them, whether from superstition or humor.

In Jasper Fforde’s Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë’s novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career.

Fforde’s ingenious fantasy – enhanced by a website that re-creates the world of the novel – unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.