Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Dutton, 1999 - Fiction - 233 pages
With the precision and focus of an Old Master's painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" paints a vivid portrait of colorful 17th-century Delft, as well as the hauntingly poignant story of one young girl's rite of passage.

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
7
Section 3
8
Copyright

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Tracy Chevalier
Limited preview - 2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel
Tracy Chevalier
Limited preview - 2001
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Tracy Chevalier
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Agnes Aleydis apothecary apron asked attic baby began blue cloth butcher camera obscura canal Catharina chair chemise clean collar colors Cornelia corner Crucifixion room cupboard Delft door doorway dress earrings easel eyes face felt Franciscus Frans front gazed girl glanced grey Griet guilders hair hallway hand harpsichord head heard jewelry box Johannes knew knife laundry Leeuwenhoek linseed oil Lisbeth looked madam Maertge maid mantle Maria Thins massicot master Meat Hall Mechelen mistress morning mother moved never nodded Oude Langendijck painting palette knife Papists pearls Pieter the father Pieter the son powder-brush pulled Ruijven Ruijven's wife smiled stairs stall standing stared stepped stood stopped storeroom street studio Sunday Tanneke tell things thought tiles told took turned van Ruijven voice waiting walked wall wanted washing watched wear window woman yellow

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About the author (1999)

Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962 in Washington, D.C. After receiving a B.A. in English from Oberlin College, she moved to England in 1984 where she worked several years as a reference book editor. Leaving her job in 1993, she began a year-long M.A in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of several novels including The Virgin Blue, Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures, and The Last Runaway. Her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.

Bibliographic information

TitleGirl with a Pearl Earring
A Plume book
Book clubs to go
AuthorTracy Chevalier
Editionreprint
PublisherDutton, 1999
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedApr 28, 2008
ISBN052594527X, 9780525945277
Length233 pages
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