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Audrey Niffenegger

    June 13, 1963

    Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and artist whose work delves into unconventional love stories and explores themes of life, mortality, and magic. Her narratives often examine complex relationships and incorporate fantastical elements, offering readers a unique perspective on the human experience. Niffenegger masterfully blends literary and visual artistry, evident in her intricate storytelling and often illustrated novels. Her writing is distinguished by its originality and profound reflections on the nature of time and human connection.

    Audrey Niffenegger
    Her Fearful Symmetry
    Raven Girl
    The Adventuress
    The Night Bookmobile
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    The Art of Neil Gaiman
    • The Art of Neil Gaiman

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down. From unforgettable books like The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods to ground-breaking comics and graphic novels like The Sandman and Violent Cases; from big screen fantasies like Coraline to small screen epics like Doctor Who; and from short stories to songwriting, stage plays to radio plays, journalism to filmmaking, and all points in-between, The Art of Neil Gaiman is the first comprehensive, full-colour examination of Gaiman's work to date.

      The Art of Neil Gaiman
      4.3
    • This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first p

      The Time Traveler's Wife
      4.0
    • The Night Bookmobile

      A graphic novel

      • 40 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world.First serialised in the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a young woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing mobile library that happens to stock every book she has ever read.

      The Night Bookmobile
      3.7
    • The Adventuress

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The author of the New York Times bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife returns with another evocative “novel in pictures,” the much-anticipated follow-up to 2005’s The Three Incestuous Sisters. The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemist’s daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffenegger’s spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings. With a stunning and distinctive visual style reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey, this gothic romance packs the emotional heft of the world’s great fairy tales. It will delight fans of the author’s previous works and enchant an entirely new legion of readers.

      The Adventuress
      3.4
    • Raven Girl

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A postman falls in love with a raven he finds on his route. He takes her home, and they become an unlikely couple, ultimately having a child—an extraordinary raven girl living in a human body.

      Raven Girl
      3.3
    • From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel—set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living. Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls’ aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. The girls move to Elspeth’s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth’s elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt.

      Her Fearful Symmetry
      3.3
    • Drei Schwestern

      Eine Geschichte in Bildern

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Bevor Audrey Niffenegger mit ihrem Roman ›Die Frau des Zeitreisenden‹ zur Bestsellerautorin wurde, arbeitete sie als Buchkünstlerin in Chicago. Vierzehn Jahre lang zeichnete sie im ironisch abgründigem Stil Edward Goreys eine berückende Märchengeschichte – das Buch ihres Herzens. Dafür nutzte sie das alte und hoch komplizierte Druckverfahren Aquatinta, dessen sich schon Goya bedient hatte. In unvergeßlich starken Bildern und einer klaren Sprache erzählt Audrey Niffenegger die Geschichte der ›Drei Schwestern‹ Bettine, Ophile und Clothilde. Als sich alle drei in den schönen Jüngling Paris verlieben und Bettine schließlich ein Kind von ihm erwartet, bricht die Dreisamkeit auseinander. Aber das Kind ist ein Heiliger und führt am Ende ein Wunder herbei. Eine so märchenhaft wie wundersame Liebesgeschichte über Eifersucht, Rache und Versöhnung.

      Drei Schwestern
      3.5
    • Katzen und Gespenster

      Sechzehn schaurige Geschichten

      Unheimlich, beängstigend und schaurig schön – das ist Audrey Niffeneggers Anthologie »Katzen und Gespenster«. Die Autorin des Bestsellers »Die Frau des Zeitreisenden« nimmt uns mit in das Gruselkabinett der Weltliteratur. In jedem Zimmer findet sich eine ihrer persönlichen Lieblingsgeschichten: Von Klassikern der angelsächsischen Grusel- und Horrorliteratur, wie Edgar Allan Poes »Die Schwarze Katze« oder M. R. James »Kupferstich« bis zu einer noch nie publizierten Geschichte der Autorin selbst. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und einem Vorwort der Autorin. Dieses Buch wird Sie packen und so schnell nicht mehr loslassen!

      Katzen und Gespenster
      2.8
    • pocketbook: Жена путешественника во времени

      [пер. с англ.]

      • 656 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      "Жена путешественника во времени" - блестящий дебют американки Одри Ниффенеггер, экранизированный в Голливуде в 2009 г. Удивительная история любви, того, как она рождается, цветет и не умирает. Клэр и Генри познакомились, когда ей было шесть, а ему тридцать шесть, и поженились, когда ей было двадцать три, а ему тридцать один... Это не арифметическая ошибка, а следствие редкой генетической болезни Генри, который произвольно и не по своей воле перемещается во времени и то появляется, то внезапно пропадает из жизни Клэр. А она, как мифическая Пенелопа, ждет своего Одиссея. Ждет и любит, несмотря ни на что. Ведь любят человека, а не его присутствие...

      pocketbook: Жена путешественника во времени