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Description
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 • Rough Front • Larger Trim Size • Premium Stock • With a New Foreword Celebrate Tracy... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Griet: a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer;
- Johannes Vermeer: painter
- Catharina: Vermeer's volatile wife
- Maria Thins: Vermeer's shrewd mother-in-law
- Tanneke: The family's fiecely loyal maid
- Cornelia: Vermeer's six-year-old daughter, a mischievous girl who sees more than she should
- van Ruijven: Vermeer's wealthy patron
First Sentence
My mother did not tell me they were coming.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Tracy Chevalier (Author)
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