Henry, a librarian with a genetic disorder that yanks him uncontrollably through time, and Clare, the artist who has loved him since childhood, piece together a marriage lived out of order.
Books mentioned in The Time Traveler's Wife (10)
The Birds of America by John James Audubon: “It's Audubon's Birds of America, the deluxe, wonderful double- elephant folio that's almost as tall as my young self.”
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe: “Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. Naked Lunch.”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: “In 1851, Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, or, The Whale, which was greeted with resounding indifference by the American public”
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “Well, great, then let s embark on Billy Budd. In 1851, Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, or, The Whale”
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: “I find Henry supine on my bed reading A Wrinkle in Time.”
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “we've already done it twenty-three times today and I would rather read Bleak House.”
Emma by Jane Austen: “Well, just now I was lying in bed with you reading Emma. You were thirty-three.”
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: “I'm hanging out in the club Library, eating canapés and reading a sumptuously bound and probably never opened first edition of Heart of Darkness.”
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins: “I'm at Henry's apartment, in Henry's bed, reading The Moonstone.”
Songs and Sonnets by John Donne: “Donne's Elegies and Songs and Sonnets. Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe.”