Girl With a Pearl Earring

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By (author): "Tracy Chevalier"
Girl With a Pearl Earring
ISBN0006513204
ISBN139780006513209
AsinGirl With a Pearl Earring
CharactersJohannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria T
Original titleGirl 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 leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.