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Jane in wonderland: Just when you thought British classics couldn't get any more fun ...(Features)(Books)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20020131
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Byline: Ron Charles

For five years, I dragged freshman boys kicking and screaming through Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." It was torture - part of the academy's "Nip a Love of Literature in the Bud" program. But finally, those plaintive cries have been answered: Through the miracle of literary-genetic engineering, Jasper Fforde has crossbred "Jane Eyre" with James Bond and Harry Potter.

His debut novel, "The Eyre Affair," is so clever, so loopy, so unabashedly ridiculous that students who hated Bronte's classic will be glad they read it, after all. And, needless to ...

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