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《진주 귀고리 소녀》는 미국의 소설가 트레이시 슈발리에가 1999년에 쓴 역사소설이다. 네덜란드의 화가 요하네스 페르메이르를 소재로 했으며, 주인공 '나'가 페르메이르의 집에서 가정부 생활을 하면서 보고 들은 것을 이야기하는 서술방법을 사용하고 있다. 시대배경은 1664년부터 1676년사이의 네덜란드 델프트 시이다. 한국어판은 강 출판사에서 2003년에 …

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind …

A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters.Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the …

Mary Anning was facinated by fossils from an early age, realising she could sell them to the gentry who had become avid collectors. She was often ripped off by the buyers and derided by scientists but was rescued by Elizabeth Philpot and their unlikely friendship would take strange twists as the importance of these …