This historical novel about the painter Vermeer is deeply immersed in he world of 17th century Holland. It concentrates on the triangular relationship between the Vermeer, his young model who is also a serving-maid in his household, and his jealous wife, Catharina.
Taking as her inspiration the famous "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries (which date from the 16th century), Tracy Chevalier writes a deeply researched historical novel about their creation, going into the minds and lives of the men who designed and executed the tapestries as well as the into the events of the time.
Set in the first years of the 20th century, Tracy Chevalier's second novel is the story of two girls--one upper class, one working class--who meet in a London cemetery. As the years go by, their friendship--along with the rapidly changing world--grows more complex.
This first novel by the author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is about Ella, an American woman, and her husband, Rick, who move to France, to the town where Ella's ancestors lived centuries ago.As Ella tries to settle in, she has a dream of the color blue. When the dream keeps recurring, and then she finds that a painting in the local museum that ...
Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once ...
Tom Hunter is a London-based photographer of international renown for his engaging, distinctive, and often provocative re-creations of Old Master paintings. In 1998 he won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award for "A "Woman Reading a Possession Order,"" a beautifully crafted photograph based on a composition by the Dutch master, Johannes ...
Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. Ella and her husband move to France, but Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry. As the novel unfolds - between ...
Set in the first years of the 20th century, Tracy Chevalier's second novel is the story of two girls--one upper class, one working class--who meet in a London cemetery. As the years go by, their friendship--along with the rapidly changing world--grows more complex.
The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's new novel 'Burning Bright' sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving ...
This superb collection features some of the freshest, funniest, most intriguing interviews in the history of "Tin House." A veritable who's who of contemporary writers, poets, and graphic novelists discuss work, life, literary theft, dry spells, what they do besides writing, and much more. With a relaxed approach that offers a far different slant ...
The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre, reflecting the explosion of academic interest in this field. Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler , Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert ...
The cyanotype print is a visually arresting printing method whose fame dates back to the nineteenth-century botanist Anna Atkins. Zeva Oelbaum here revisits the beauty of the natural world and pays homage to this botanist and little used, compelling process in Blue Prints: The Natural World in Cyanotype Photographs . This book features ...
Important living writers of fiction, drama and poetry who write in languages other than English (and have been subsequently translated) are included in the first update since 1984 of this important volume. A 20-member advisory board of academic literary specialists helped to select the 358 entries, including both well-established writers and ...
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.
In each tapestries, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Best selling author, Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the creation of these tapestries, giving life to the men who made them, as well as the wives, daughters, and servants who exercised subtle influences ...
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