One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Jasper Fforde [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1. - The BookWorld Remade
Chapter 2. - A Woman Named Thursday Next
Chapter 3. - Scarlett O’Kipper
Chapter 4. - The Red-Haired Gentleman
Chapter 5. - Sprockett
Chapter 6. - The Bed-Sitting Room
Chapter 7. - The Lady of Shalott
Chapter 8. - The Shield
Chapter 9. - Home
Chapter 10. - Epizeuxis
Chapter 11. - Plot Thickens
Chapter 12. - Jurisfiction
Chapter 14. - Stamped and Filed
Chapter 15. - The Mimefield
Chapter 16. - Commander Bradshaw
Chapter 17. - The Council of Genres
Chapter 18. - Senator Jobsworth
Chapter 19. - JurisTech, Inc.
Chapter 20. - Alive!
Chapter 21. - Landen Parke-Laine
Chapter 22. - Jenny
Chapter 23. - The Stiltonista
Chapter 24. - Goliath
Chapter 25. - An Intervention
Chapter 26. - Family
Chapter 27. - Back Early
Chapter 28. - Home Again
Chapter 29. - TransGenre Taxis
Chapter 30. - High Orbit
Chapter 31. - Biography
Chapter 32. - Homecoming
Chapter 33. - The League of Cogmen
Chapter 34. - The Metaphoric Queen
Chapter 35. - We Go Upriver
Chapter 36. - Middle Station
Chapter 37. - Revision
Chapter 38. - Answers
Chapter 39. - Story-Ending Options
Chapter 40. - Thursday Next
Chapter 41. - The End of the Book
Acknowledgements
Also by Jasper Fforde
SHADES OF GREY
The Thursday Next Series
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS
SOMETHING ROTTEN
THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK
THE EYRE AFFAIR
(No longer available)
The Nursery Crimes Series
THE BIG OVER EASY
THE FOURTH BEAR
VIKING
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fforde, Jasper.
One of our Thursdays is missing / Jasper Fforde.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-47600-0
1. Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Literary historians—
England—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6106.F67O64 2011
823'.92—dc22 2010043581
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