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La jeune et ravissante Griet est engagée comme servante dans la maison du peintre Vermeer. Nous sommes à Delft, au dix-septième siècle, l'âge d'or de la peinture hollandaise. Griet s'occupe du ménage et des six enfants de Vermeer en s'efforçant d'amadouer l'épouse, la belle-mère et la gouvernante, chacune très jalouse de ses prérogatives. Au fil du temps, la douceur, la sensibilité et la vivacité de la jeune fille émeuvent le maître qui l'introduit dans son univers. À mesure que s'affirme leur intimité, le scandale se propage dans la ville... Un roman envoûtant sur la corruption de l'innocence, l'histoire d'un coeur simple sacrifié au bûcher du génie.

The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's new novel 'Burning Bright' sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and ...

È il 1792 a Londra, e il traffico è intenso in Hercules Buildings: ventidue case a schiera di mattoni con un piccolo giardino sul davanti e un pub a ciascuna estremità della strada. Nel trambusto di carrozze, cavalli e barrocci, grida di pescivendoli, venditori di scope e fiammiferi, lustrascarpe e calderai, Jem Kellaway, un ragazzo col viso allungato, gli occhi azzurri infossati e i capelli biondo-rossicci, trasporta all'interno del numero 12 una sedia Windsor dopo l'altra. È il mese di marzo e il caldo e il rumore sono insopportabili. Jem esploderebbe certamente di rabbia e stanchezza se d'improvviso non calasse una strana pausa di silenzio sulla strada e la signorina Pelham non si zittisse e Maggie non smettesse di fissarlo. Seguendo il suo sguardo, il ragazzo scorge un uomo attraversare la via. Robusto, la faccia larga, la fronte spaziosa, gli occhi grigi e la carnagione pallida, vestito semplicemente, camicia bianca, brache, calze e giacca nere, e un bizzarro berretto in testa, un bonnet rouge, il copricapo con la coccarda blu, bianca e rossa della Rivoluzione francese. È uno degli abitanti più noti degli Hercules Buildings: William Blake, l'artista, il poeta che stampa "strani libretti" e inneggia alle idee che incendiano il paese dall'altra parte della Manica. Comienzo página

Chevalier's newest is a flat historical whose familiar themes of gender inequality, class warfare and social power often overwhelm the story. Tart-tongued spinster Elizabeth Philpot meets young Mary Anning after moving from London to the coastal town of Lyme Regis. The two quickly form an unlikely friendship based on their mutual interest in finding fossils, which provides the central narrative as working-class Mary emerges from childhood to become a famous fossil hunter, with her friend and protector Elizabeth to defend her against the men who try to take credit for Mary's finds. Their friendship, however, is tested when Colonel Birch comes to Lyme to ask for Mary's help in hunting fossils and the two spinsters compete for his attention. While Chevalier's exploration of the plight of Victorian-era women is admirable, Elizabeth's fixation on her status as an unmarried woman living in a gossipy small town becomes monotonous, and Chevalier slows the story by dryly explaining the relative importance of different fossils. Chevalier's attempt to imagine the lives of these real historical figures makes them seem less remarkable than they are.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

Des del moment que li va caure un llamp al damunt essent bebè, la Mary Anning va quedar marcada pel destí. Som a començaments del segle XIX. La Mary descobreix, en uns penya-segats prop de casa seva

Amb el nom de La dama de l'unicorn es coneix un conjunt de sis tapissos medievals bellíssims, tan bells com desconegut es el seu orígen i el seu significat. L'ordre i continutat del que s'hi representa podrien fer pensar que van ser dissenyats i fets per una sola persona, pero no es aixi, moltes mes mans van participar en la seva creacio: teixidors, patronistes, artistes, mercaders, aprenents...I al seu darrera, esposes, filles i servents.La confeccio dels sis tapissos provocara la coincidencia d'uns personatges que d'una altra manera no s'haurien trobat. Les seves vides quedaran involucrades per sempre mes, i tambe els seus desitjos. A mesura que s'enamoren, son rebutjats o es revengen, cadascun dels tapissos va prenent la forma d'un ideal de vida; un ideal que caldra assumir com a tal davant la impossibilitat de fer.lo realitat.

La joven de la perla Tracy Chevalier resucita al artista real Vermeer y a su musa ficticia en una joya de novela TIMELa dama y el unicornioLa historia que teje es tan exuberante como los tapices que describe, y sus persinajes están llenos de color BOOKLIST

It was the commission of a lifetime. Jean Le Viste, a fifteenth-century nobleman close to the King, hires an artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. Nicholas des Innocents overcomes his surprise at being offered this commission when he catches sight of his patron's daughter, Claude. His pursuit of her pulls him into the web of fragile relationships between husband and wife, parents and children, lovers and servants. It was a revolutionary design. in Brussels, renowned weaver Georges de la Chapelle takes on the biggest challenge of his career. Never before has he attempted a work that puts so much at stake. Sucked into a world of temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the rogue painter from Paris. The results changed their lives. "Tracy Chevalier gives the kiss of life to the historical novel." Independent newspaper

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet - their lives become entangled, and so do their desir

Este pack incluye las obras:-La joven de la Perla-El azul de la Virgen-La dama y el unicornio

El seductor Nicolas des Innocents ha recibido el encargo del noble parisino jean Le Viste de diseñar unos tapices para su gran salón. Mientras Nicolas mide las pardes, conoce a la hermosa hija del noble y nace entre los dos una pasión imposible para la época.

Griet, a tilemaker's daughter in 17th-century Holland, starts her first job as a servant the Vermeer household. Through Griet's eyes the story is told of the family, the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet is drawn into his life, but there is a price to pay.