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The Adventuress Hardcover – September 1, 2006

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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.
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  1. Print length
    144 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2006
  5. Grade level
    8 and up
  6. Reading age
    13 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    9 x 0.75 x 11 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    081097052X
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0810970526
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Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives in Chicago. She has been making books by hand since the early 1980s; more recently she published a novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, which was an international bestseller.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."; First Edition (September 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 081097052X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810970526
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.75 x 11 inches
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Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago. In addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago.

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L. WASSON
5.0 out of 5 stars Graphic Novel
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2010
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Bought this for my 18yo budding graphic designer, she loves it. Is not a book in the sense of Time Travelers Wife, is definitely to be purchased for your interest in art.
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Nomad Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Quirky, smart, and hauntingly beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2009
The Adventuress is sparse and brilliantly complex.

The plot of The Adventuress is difficult to describe without telling the story myself. I like this succinct description from my library's catalog: "The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemist's daughter." If you've read Niffenegger, you know how she plays with fantasy and reality in a magical way; The Adventuress is no different. Like The Three Incestuous Sisters, it's a unique format. It's most like a picture book for grown-ups. The artwork is mesmerizing, and there are several panels I would gladly use to decorate my walls.

When I finished it (far too quickly), my first thoughts were simply, "wow." It's a quirky, smart, hauntingly beautiful story told with the a sparse use of words and mesmerizing and beautiful art.
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Hilda
3.0 out of 5 stars The Adventuress
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2006
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I absolutely love Audrey Niffenegger's books. I would recommend this and any of her others to everyone!
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ShambhaviG
4.0 out of 5 stars Love the pictures!
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016
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I got this book for the graphics. Story is strange and I haven't given a lot of thought to it. I will de-construct the book and use elements of the pictures in collages (for private use). I do not sell my work. I really like Niffennegger's work. Time Traveler's Wife is a favorite book.
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D. Busbee
1.0 out of 5 stars Did Not Love The Adventuress
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2009
I was expecting something totally different. It was.... odd, at best. Perhaps there is an audience who will love it, but I didn't fall into that group. Of course, it's in a completely different category from The Time Travelor's Wife, which is one of my favorite reads.
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Melanie's Review
2.0 out of 5 stars Visually appealing, but not great fiction
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2007
As others have noted, if you buy this book with the expectation that the story will be even an ounce as compelling as The Time Traveler's Wife, you will be disappointed. I gave this book 2 stars for the quality. As picture novels go, it is given the royal print quality treatment. However, I was underwhelemed by the illustrations and storyline. I know it was written years ago and I like that it was dusted off and resurrected, but it just didn't draw me in. Pardon the pun ;)
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K. Hinton
4.0 out of 5 stars A novel in pictures
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2007
Don't buy The Adventuress hoping to have the same sense of wonderment and awe that you felt when you finished The Time Traveler's Wife. It isn't that sort of book.

The Adventuress is the second of Niffenegger's picture novels (that were mass produced at least. The first being the Three Incestuous Sisters), but it's the first one she wrote. In a footnote at the end of the book, she says it was made between 1983 and 1985 when she was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The book is beautifully bound, the pictures are amazing. Some of them I'd be tempted to cut out and frame if it wouldn't ruin the book. In the epilogue, she describes the process it takes to create these images and thanks the people who taught her the technique.

The story, itself, isn't much of a story so much as words that take you through the story the pictures tell. The art itself is the story, so if the words she wrote before in her amazingly successful novel The Time Traveler's Wife are what drew you to this story, prepare to be disappointed.

But if you want to see inside the mind of an artist, who can write as well as create, I think you'll be impressed. I didn't know what to expect, but knew that I liked her work and this book was a pleasant surprise. The Adventuress is indeed an adventure for those who have never seen the work of a visual artist in which the pictures themselves are the story. It isn't a graphic novel. The words are there to enhance the images, but the pictures themselves are the star.

I don't know what to tell you, but to pick it up and take a look. You could read it in 15 minutes at Barnes and Noble and know whether or not you wanted to take the chance and buy it. Myself, I'll probably keep it out as coffee table book, because it would be a shame for her art to be hidden on a bookshelf.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2017
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3.0 out of 5 stars I would have been very disappointed if I had paid more money for it (got ...
Reviewed in India on October 25, 2016
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I would say its mediocre, but after reading all the glowing reviews this book got, I will just say it wasn't for me. I would have been very disappointed if I had paid more money for it (got it 2nd hand for 300 Rs only)
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C. Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2014
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Anything Audrey does is magical
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Ld
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2015
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Only just opened 2015 it (was in storage) - house moves - and a page is torn!!! - Heartbroken!
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E. Morgan
2.0 out of 5 stars Book of illustrations
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2010
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This book is pretty as an object but definately not a novel, more just a book filled with picutures and one sentence on each page. Nothing like Time travellers wife.
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