Thursday Next novels
Author
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
English
Description
Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
Exhausted by her stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next is delighted by a respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, and a murderer.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The Goliath Corp., formerly an oppressive conglomerate and now an oppressive organized religion, vows to right the wrong they did by eradicating Thursday's husband, and returning to Swindon with her son and a dithering Hamlet in tow, Thursday is confronted with a myriad challenges, not the least of which is finding a Shakespeare clone and reliable child care.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years have passed since we last dropped in on Thursday, and not much has changed--except her son Friday has grown into a teenage pill. Now the Goliath Corporation is up to their old mischief, and only Thursday can stop their latest diabolical scheme.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. After returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate, she finds that her children have problems that need her attention.