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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Dec 2004
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 256
Interweaving historical fact with fiction, this richly textured novel by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring explores the mystery and personal stories behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris. Reprint.
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