The Well of Lost Plots
First edition
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| Author | Jasper Fforde |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Thursday Next |
| Genre | Alternate history, Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
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Publication date
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2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 360 pp (HB) |
| ISBN | (HB) |
| OCLC | 59342434 |
| 823/.914 22 | |
| LC Class | PR6106.F67 W45 2003 |
| Preceded by | Lost in a Good Book |
| Followed by | Something Rotten |
The Well of Lost Plots is a novel by Jasper Fforde, published in 2003. It is the third book in the Thursday Next series, after The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.
Apprentice JurisFiction agent and SpecOps-27 operative Thursday Next is taking a vacation inside Caversham Heights, a never-published detective novel inside the titular Well of Lost Plots, while waiting for her child to be born. In the book, she encounters two Generics, students of St Tabularasa's who have yet to be assigned to a book, and DCI Jack Spratt, a detective who partners with her in investigating a murder. Since Thursday is an "Outlander", a "real" person rather than a fictional character, Spratt hopes that she will help them appeal to the Council of Genres to prevent the disassembling of Caversham Heights, a fate inevitable for books which languish unpublished in the real world.
Using a Caversham Heights as her base of operations, Thursday continues her apprenticeship with Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Meanwhile, fictional character Yorrick Kaine, is loose in Thursday's real world and conspiring with someone in Text Grand Central, the final arbitrators of plot, setting, and other story elements, to release BOOK version 9, code-named UltraWord. UltraWord is touted at a JurisFiction meeting as the greatest advance "since the invention of movable type" because it creates a thirty-two plot story system and allows the reader to control the story.
Thursday slowly loses her memory of Landen, though Granny Next remains with her and keeps her from forgetting him completely. In doing so, she also battles Aornis Hades, the villainess, who nearly converted the world to Dream Topping in Lost in a Good Book, who is present in her memory as a mindworm. Thursday learns that Harris Tweed, Kaine's partner, is masquerading as a JurisFiction agent to get UltraWord released, which he states will "fix literature". She investigates the details of Ultraword and makes some alarming discoveries.
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