Girl with a Pearl Earring
A Novel
- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in historical fiction centered on art and artistic vision
- Themes
- Artistic vision, Sensual awakening, History and fiction
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Celebrate Tracy Chevalier’s modern classic Girl With A Pearl Earring, featuring a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of Vermeer’s masterworks. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. The story of Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with a genius as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil, is new again.
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A Deluxe Edition of the National Bestseller with Over 2 Million Copies Sold:
- Eight Pages of Full-Color Plates Include Every Vermeer Painting Discussed in the Book
- French Flaps
- Rough Front
- a New Foreword
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Coming-of-Age
- Authors
- Tracy Chevalier
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- August 30, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction