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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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- “Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”Jasper Fforde
Explore Curiosity
- “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”Richard Feynman
- “Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which can pick u…”Richard Davenport-Hines
- “Contemplation is purer still, yet more sophisticated. This comes from a strongly developed base of concentrat…”Darrell Calkins
Explore Knowledge
- “I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which mad…”Denise Juneau
- “Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following…”Bryant McGill
- “Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharp…”Roger Ascham
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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