Daily Archives: August 9, 2011



The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Summary History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening as seen through the eyes of the young woman who was the inspiration behind one of Vermeer’s finest paintings. In seventeenth-century Delft, a strict social order reigns, dividing rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master […]