false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171163759m/89788.jpg 89788 38 If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling <I>Girl with a Pearl Earring</I>, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, <I>Falling Angels</I>, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, <I>The Lady and the Unicorn</I> is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous <I>Lady and the Unicorn</I> cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. <I>--Regina Marler</I> 851956 book 2003 The Lady and the Unicorn total:4449|5:660|4:1560|3:1611|2:509|1:109| 4449 15500 5551 472 2 4 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Apr 10 12:18:50 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 12:20:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:29:11 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:31:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 12:57:18 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 17:07:56 -0800 2008 The story takes place...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 08:15:54 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 15:59:13 -0700 2008 The Lady and the Unicorn
New York: Penguin, 2004
250 pp. $23.95
0-525-94767-1
“The Lady and the Unicorn,” written by Tracy Chevalier, is a historical fiction novel about medieval French tapestries which depict a woman seducing a unicorn. Although not muc...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Apr 18 06:50:38 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 01:30:47 -0700 2008 I found Lady and the Unicorn even better than Girl with a Pearl Earring. I felt utterly transported to the middle ages and immersed in a very good tale, immaculately told.
As she did with The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier takes a classic work...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 18 14:37:42 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 14:38:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 26 07:29:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:37:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 02:03:33 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 02:04:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 06:36:48 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 06:37:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false true Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 20 12:57:40 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 13:03:26 -0700 2009 It starts as a painter getting a job to paint five tapestries for the home of a rich noble in Paris. He decides to paint five large paintings of a woman and a unicorn and incorpora...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Dec 30 20:19:42 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 20:26:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 19:37:19 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 12:38:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 18:31:06 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 12:31:12 -0800 2008 The Lady and the Unicorn is a historical novel, set in 15th century France. The title of the novel refers to a series of mysterious tapes...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 08:46:29 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:51:28 -0700 2009 The Lady and the Unicorn
New York: Plume, 2004
288 pp. $9.99
0-525-94767-1

Six enigmatic tapestries currently hang in the Musee de Cluny in Paris depicting six ladies and a unicorn in each. Tracy Chevalier gives vivid new life to the story behind these ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 14:54:04 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:44:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 24 19:10:47 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 07:30:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 08:25:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:16:53 -0700 2009 Girl with a Pearl Earring and it was something totally different. It lacks Girl...'s poetic and romantic atmosphere, but The Lady and the Unicorn was a pleasant summer read. I enjoyed reading about the tapestries, the way weavers worked in 15th-century Belgium, an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 07:01:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 07:01:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 16 23:07:30 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 20:52:43 -0800 2009
The Lady and the unicorn mengambil ide dari dari permadani Le Viste yang ditemukan di Boussa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 07 04:28:12 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 02:04:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89788