| The Lady and the Unicorn Contributor(s): Chevalier, Tracy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452285453 ISBN-13: 9780452285453 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2004 Annotation: An extraordinary story exquisitely told, 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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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Medieval |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.60 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 38 New York Times 02/27/2005 pg. 24 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 77438 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 masterpieces--a 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 unknown--until 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 house--mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting--before 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 tapestries--his finest, most intricate work--on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives--lives 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 tapestry--an extraordinary story exquisitely told. |
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