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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieceśђؤa set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknowńђؤuntil now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the houséђؤmother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waitinǵђؤbefore taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestrieśђؤhis finest, most intricate worḱђؤon time for his exacting French client. The results change all their liveśђؤlives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestrýђؤan extraordinary story exquisitely told. |
| Audience |
Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4 |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin Books, 2004. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 345 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Fiction.
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Historical Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780452285453 |
| ISBN |
9781101213186 (electronic bk) |
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