5/28/2023 0 Comments Pearl earring book![]() ![]() Made into a film in 2003, starring Scarlet Johannson and Colin Firth. ![]() Title of a book, article or other published item (this will. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high. As the story unfolds, she is only sixteen and a servant in the household of the painter himself. ![]() Tracy Chevalier shows us through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in the painter Johannes Vermeer's household. A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. In this beloved modern classic of historical fiction, internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier creates a captivating portrait of the young w. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight page yellowing, very slight lean, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions. First edition first impression in second state jacket with 'Earring' spelt correctly on back jacket. It is a historical novel based on the classic and enchanting painting by. Her latest novel, A SINGLE THREAD, tells the story of an English woman between the Wars who forges an independent life in Winchester. ![]() Jacket after Johannes Vermeer (illustrator). A little while ago, I read the book Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. ![]()
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