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Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- Narrator
- Hattie Morahan
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical fiction
What to expect
17th-century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy
spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.
Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.
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Details
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- Narrator
- Hattie Morahan
- Duration
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9798891782945
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Historical fiction
Synopsis
An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.17th-century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.
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