Girl with a Pearl Earring
A Novel
by Tracy Chevalier
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17thcentury art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutc...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
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“Not surprised these two books are on this best of all time list loved them both and reread over the years but an impossible list to finish 100+ books would make my Top 25”
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