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Lost in a Good Book

Index Lost in a Good Book

Lost in a Good Book is an alternative history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. [1]

38 relations: Allusion, Alternate history, Ambrose Bierce, Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), Characters in the Thursday Next series, Charles Dickens, Cheshire Cat, Dilys Award, Douglas Adams, Dream Whip, Edgar Allan Poe, Fantasy literature, Franz Kafka, Great Expectations, Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton, Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde, Miss Havisham, Novel, Osaka, Pregnancy, Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), Salon (website), SF Site, Short Sunderland, SpecOps, Swindon, Terry Pratchett, The Big Over Easy, The Eyre Affair, The History of Cardenio, The Raven, The Trial, The Well of Lost Plots, Thursday Next, Voltaire, William Shakespeare.

Allusion

Allusion is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context.

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Alternate history

Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran.

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Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Characters in the Thursday Next series

The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin.

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Dilys Award

The Dilys Award was presented every year from 1992 to 2014 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Dream Whip

Dream Whip is a powder that is mixed with milk and vanilla to make a whipped dessert topping.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist.

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Miss Havisham

Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations (1861).

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.

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Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)

The Red Queen is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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SF Site

SF Site is a science fiction online magazine edited by Rodger Turner.

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Short Sunderland

The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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SpecOps

SpecOps is a fictional overarching British governmental force in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of novels.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Big Over Easy

The Big Over Easy is a novel written by Jasper Fforde and published in 2005.

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The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.

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The History of Cardenio

The History of Cardenio, often referred to as merely Cardenio, is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company, in 1613.

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The Raven

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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The Trial

The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925.

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The Well of Lost Plots

The Well of Lost Plots is a novel by Jasper Fforde, published in 2003.

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Thursday Next

Thursday Next is the protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history mystery novels by the British author Jasper Fforde.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_a_Good_Book

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