Girl With a Pearl Earring - A novel

Informationen zum Autor Tracy Chevalier is the author of eleven novels, including A Single Thread , Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring , an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and been made into a film, a play and an opera. Born in Washington DC, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1986. She and her husband divide their time between London and Dorset. Klappentext An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant and Philippa Gregory. Zusammenfassung OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE ‘A phenomenon’ Jessie Burton ‘Dazzling’ Daily Mail ‘Truly magical' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Chevalier
• Publisher: Harpercollins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780007232161
• ISBN: 978-0-00-723216-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 185 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Mashups, Netherlands, Narrative theme: Sense of place, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Classic fiction: general and literary