The Eyre Affair_ A Novel - Jasper Fforde [446]
Extract from Tiger Tiger (copyright © Alfred Bester, 1955) by kind permission of the Estate of Alfred Bester and the Sayle Literary Agency.
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Fforde, Jasper.
Thursday Next in Something rotten : a novel / Jasper Fforde.
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For Maddy, Rosie,
Jordan and Alexander
With all my love
April 2004
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1. - A Cretan Mino taurin Nebraska
Chapter 2. - No Place Like Home
Chapter 3. - Evade the Question Time
Chapter 4. - A Town Like Swindon
Chapter 5. - Ham (let) and Cheese
Chapter 6. - Spec Ops
Chapter 7. - The Literary Detectives
Chapter 8. - Time Waits for No Man
Chapter 9. - Eradications Anonymous
Chapter 10. - Mrs. Tiggy-winkle
Chapter 11. - The Greatness of St. Zvlkx
Chapter 12. - Spike and Cindy
Chapter 14. - The Goliath Apologarium
Chapter 15. - Meeting the CEO
Chapter 16. - That Evening
Chapter 17. - Emperor Zhark
Chapter 18. - Emperor Zhark Again
Chapter 19. - Cloned Will Hunting
Chapter 20. - ChimerasandNeanderthals
Chapter 21. - Victory on the Victory
Chapter 22. - Roger Kapok
Chapter 23. - Granny Next
Chapter 24. - Home Again
Chapter 25. - Practical Difficulties Regarding Uneradications
Chapter 26. - Breakfast with Mycroft
Chapter 27. - Weird Shit on the M4
Chapter 28. - Dauntsey Services
Chapter 29. - The Cat Formerly Known as Cheshire
Chapter 30. - Neanderthal Nation
Chapter 31. - Planning Meeting
Chapter 32. - Area 21: The Elan
Chapter 33. - Shgakespeafe
Chapter 34. - St. Zvlkx and Cindy
Chapter 35. - What Thursday Did Next
Chapter 36. - Kaine v. Next
Chapter 37. - Before the Match
Chapter 38. - WCL SuperHoop-88
Chapter 39. - Sudden Death
Chapter 40. - Second First Person
Chapter 41. - Death Becomes Her
Chapter 42. - Explanations
Chapter 43. - Recovery
Chapter 44. - Final Curtain
Credits
Author’s Note
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