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The latest, expanded issue of NOBROW comes out this November, bringing us a luxurious mix of illustration and narrative art around the theme of the double: doppelgangers, duplicates, twins, shadows, reflections...
We were so taken with the topic that we've pooled some of our favourite literary, artistic and cinematic doubles -- from uncanny likenesses such as Edgar Allen Poe's William Wilson to familial twins like those in Dead Ringers.
So have a look through and pick up a treat to indulge the peculiar thrill of having your very individuality undermined...
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| Laura Cumming Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. |
Jose Saramago What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical... | Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert Mighall A story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true... |
Paul Auster Includes three cleverly interconnected novels, that contains stories in which the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Ronald Wilks;... Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker... |
Roger Hargreaves From Mr Tickle's extraordinarily long arms to Little Miss Princess's sparkly crown, the Mr Men and Little Misses have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics... | Audrey Niffenegger Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs. But everything changes when they receive... |
Edgar Allan Poe; David Van Leer Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have... | L. J. Smith A compelling sequence from the best selling author of Night World! |
Sigmund Freud; Hugh Haughton; David... Features Leonardo da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. This book explores his sexuality - 'why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way he did?'... | Alexandre Dumas; David Coward One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - 'l'action et l'amour'.... |
Charles Dickens; Andrew Sanders As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great... | Paul Auster; Art Spiegelman; Paul... In the expert hands of David Mazzuchelli (Batman), Paul Karasik (Raw) and Art Spiegelman (Maus), Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life. |
Daphne Du Maurier; Lisa Appignanesi Gripping and complex, this is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. | Patricia Highsmith 'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know... |