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  • Girl with a Pearl Earring

  • I thought this was a wonderful story. Tracy Chevalier really brought the character Griet to life for me. I also enjoyed the speculation concerning the "story behind the painting".

    

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  • I wanted to know more. Who really was this girl. I couldn't stop looking at the actual painting.

    

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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
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• 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.

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