The Well of Lost Plots

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xiv], 360, [8]. Red cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Frontispiece illustration, acknowledgements, contents page, credits, plus four tongue-in-cheek ads to rear of the book. Jacket illustration by Larry Rostant (priced £18.99 to front flap).

Signed by the author to title page in a lower case signature. With promotional postcard, "The Little Village of Deja-Vu," laid in. Faint toning to textblock, else Fine.

Winner of the 2004 Wodehouse prize for comic fiction (which comes complete with a live pig), for its "happy marriage of delightful intelligence and complete lunacy". The third installment in the series featuring literary sleuth Thursday Next, where once again she finds herself tangling with the literal conceits of prose, plot devices and the western literary canon.

"What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition of low comedy and high erudition – this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce." –Independent