Girl With a Pearl Earring

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. 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 loves being drawn into his artistic life, and le...

By Tracy Chevalier
Hardcover: 283 pages
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc; Large Print edition (March 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568958501
ISBN-13: 978-1568958507
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 2802687
Format: PDF Text djvu ebook

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Ms. Chevalier's fictional account of Griet and her employment in the Vermeer household could very well have happened in just that way since history knows so little of the master painter. Griet, probably a shortened form of Marguerite, certainly was

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