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Girl with a Pearl Earring, Deluxe Edition |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 21025
Publication Date: 2005-08-30
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 0452287022
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 256
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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
• Larger Trim Size
• Premium Stock
• With a New Foreword
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.
Average Rating: 
Review: 2008-10-15
Girl with a pearl earring
I really enjoyed reading the book "Girl with a Pearl Earring". I was hooked from the first page. I think the author does a very good job in telling the story of how the painting became so famous. I thought it was very brave of Griet being a young Protestant girl to be willing to go work as a maid in a house of Catholics so her family could survive. When I first started reading the book, I predicted that she would quit her job as the maid because of the painting in her "bedroom" and how it made her unable to sleep. But when she continued to work there and fulfill her duties, I was shocked. When the new up and coming artist Johannes Vermeer, decides to make their maid, Griet, his new inspiration I asked myself why such a famous man like him would paint the woman that keeps his house in order. But when I looked at the final paintings shown in the book, I saw what made her so inspirational. I figured that all of the rich buyers of the paintings would really like the ones he painted of his own maid working. In the paintings it showed a maid working in clothing that weren't as nice as the people she was serving. However, I did not like it when it seemed like when she first started working at the house she had more work to do than the other person that worked there. All in all, I think it was a fantastic book that taught me history by telling a story. I would recommend this book to anyone, it's a great book and if you haven't already read it, I would choose it as your next book to read.
Review: 2008-08-30
I adored this book!
I really enjoyed this book. It was such a great story and I could not help but keep flipping back to the front cover so I could look at the beautiful painting again and again! I will definately read this again.
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