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 Bront?'s novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy-enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel--unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.

1.A woman named Thursday Next

2.Cad's Hill

3.Back at my desk

4.Acheron Hades

5.Search for the guilty, punish the innocent

6.Jane Eyre: A short excursion into the novel

7.The Goliath Corporation

8.Airship to Swindon

9.The Nextfamily

10.The Finis Hotel, Swindon

11.Pollyflashes upon the inward eye

12.SpecOps 27: TheLiteraryDetectives

13.The Church at Capel-y-flin

14.Lunch with Bowden

15.Hello ε Goodbye, Mr Quaverley

16.SturmeyArcher 8Felix7

17.SpecOps 17: Suckers 8 Biters

18.Landen again

19.The very Irrev.Joffy Next

20.DrRuncible Spoon

21.Hddes εGoHnth

22.Thewaitinggame

23.The drop

24.Martin Chuzzlewit is reprieved

25.Time enoughfo, contemplation

26.The Earthcrossers

27.Hadesfinds another manuscript

28.Hawonh House

29.dane Ely陀

30.Agroundswell ofpopularfeeling

31.The People's Republic ofWales

32.Thomfield Hall

33.The book is written

34.Nearly me end oftheir book

35.Nearly the end ofour book

36.Manied