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The Lady and the Unicorn Hardcover - 2004
by Chevalier, Tracy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris.
In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a wealthy family from Lyons.
Tracy Chevalier takes readers back to the tapestries' creation, giving life to the men who designed and made them, as well as the wives, daughters, and servants who exercised subtle (and not so subtle) influences over their men. Like the many different strands of wool and silk that were woven together into one cloth, the lives and fates of these people entwine in complex patterns, crisscrossing as they seek desires sensual and spiritual, temporal and eternal.
An extraordinary story exquisitely told, Tracy Chevalier's The Lady and the Unicorn weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry that rivals in grace and grandeur the masterpiece that inspired it.
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Details
- Title The Lady and the Unicorn
- Author Chevalier, Tracy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 250
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton, New York
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # 020965
- ISBN 9780525947677 / 0525947671
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.96 x 0.99 in (21.34 x 15.14 x 2.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Paris (France)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003057288
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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