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    <![CDATA[Girl with a Pearl Earring]]>
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    <![CDATA[  A Deluxe Edition of the National Bestseller with Over 2 Million Copies Sold:<br/><br/>  • Eight Pages of Full-Color Plates Include Every Vermeer Painting Discussed in the   Book<br/>  • French Flaps<br/>  • Rough Front<br/>  • Larger Trim Size<br/>  • Premium Stock<br/>  • With a New Foreword<br/>  <br/>  Celebrate Tracy Chevalier’s modern classic <em>Girl With A Pearl Earring</em>, featuring   a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of Vermeer’s masterworks. History   and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual   awakening.  The story of Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with a   genius as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil, is new again.]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was fun to read this book shortly after taking an art history class (which I did this summer).  It purports to tell the story behind Vermeer's painting by that name.  Griet, the main character and subject of the painting, is forced to become a maid in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70273279">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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