First Among Sequels

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First Among Sequels is a comic fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde that continues the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in a metafictional world where books and reality intertwine.

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First Among Sequels canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf metafiction
novel
author Jasper Fforde
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Landen Parke-Laine
linked to: Landen Park-Laine

Thursday Next
Thursday Next (fictional written version)
featuresOrganization Jurisfiction
SpecOps
follows Something Rotten
linked to: Something Rotten!
genre comic fantasy
fantasy
metafiction
hasAlternateEditionISBN 9780670038718
hasHumorStyle literary parody
satire
wordplay
hasISBN 9780340835753
hasMetafictionalElement characters aware they are in books
interaction between readers and fictional characters
hasSequel One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
hasTheme bureaucracy in fictional universes
commercialization of literature
family and responsibility
identity and authorship
isFifthInSeries Thursday Next series
language English
literarySetting BookWorld
Swindon
mainCharacter Thursday Next
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
pageCountApprox 400
partOf Thursday Next series
publicationYear 2007
publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Viking Press
linked to: The Viking Press
series Thursday Next
subjectMatter alternate realities
interplay between fiction and reality
literary detective work
time travel
targetAudience adult readers

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Jasper Fforde notableWork First Among Sequels
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing precededBy First Among Sequels
Thursday Next series hasPart First Among Sequels