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About Jasper Fforde
English novelist
Jasper Fforde is an English novelist. His first novel, The Eyre Affair, appeared in 2001, and he is best known for the Thursday Next books. He has also written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series, and four in The Last Dragonslayer series. His fiction is known for literary allusions, wordplay, carefully plotted stories, and a playful approach to traditional genres, often with elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.
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- “Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”Aeschylus
- “You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed…”Cassandra Clare
- “Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessa…”William Shakespeare
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Books by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
2001
Something Rotten
2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
2007
Lost in a Good Book
2004
Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)
2005