Tracy Chevalier Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Virgin Blue (1997)
  2. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2000)
  3. Falling Angels (2001)
  4. The Lady and the Unicorn (2003)
  5. Burning Bright (2007)
  6. Remarkable Creatures (2009)
  7. The Last Runaway (2013)
  8. At the Edge of the Orchard (2016)
  9. A Single Thread (2019)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (2014)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Dorset Gap (2016)

Hogarth Shakespeare Books In Publication Order

  1. New Boy (2017)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers (1989)
  2. Contemporary Poets (1990)
  3. Contemporary World Writers Edition 2. (1993)
  4. Encyclopedia of the Essay (1997)
  5. The Sleep Quilt (2017)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Imagined Lives (2010)
  2. Why Willows Weep (2011)
  3. Reader, I Married Him (2016)

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Tracy Chevalier Books Overview

The Virgin Blue

The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close knit community of Lisle sur Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and learns French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town’s wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Falling pregnant, she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her. Plagued by the color blue, Ella is haunted by parallels with the past, and by her recurring dream. Then one morning she wakes up to discover that her hair is turning inexplicably red

Girl with a Pearl Earring

A beguiling story about artistic vision and sensual depth that eerily and eloquently re creates the feeling of the famous painting that inspired itIn seventeenth century Delft, there’s a strict social order rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother in law; his restless, sensual wife; and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet’s quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master’s paintings will draw her inexorably into his world. Their growing intimacy sparks whispers; and when Vermeer paints her wearing his wife’s pearl earrings, the gossip escalates into a full blown scandal that irrevocably changes Griet’s life. Written with the precision and focus of an Old Master painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a vivid portrait of colorful seventeenth century Delft, as well as the hauntingly poignant story of one young girl’s rite of passage. ‘Beautifully written, mysterious, and almost unbearably poignant…
I read it with a book of Vermeer’s paintings beside me and it was a magical experience to glance from one to the other.’ Deborah Moggach, author of Tulip Fever

Falling Angels

A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria’s death, teeter on the brink of a new era. The Colemans and the Waterhouses are divided by social class as well as taste. They would certainly not have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And, even more unsuitably, become involved with the gravedigger’s muddy son. As the girls grow up, as the new king changes social customs, as a new, forward thinking era takes wing, the lives and fortunes of the two families become more and more closely intertwined neighbors in life as well as death. Against a gas lit backdrop of social and political history, Tracy Chevalier explores the prejudices and flaws of a changing time. A novel that is at once elegant, daring, original, and compelling, Falling Angels is a splendid follow up to the book The New York Times called ‘marvelously evocative’ and The Wall Street Journal deemed ‘triumphant.’

The Lady and the Unicorn

The new novel from the author of the much loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste’s wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver’s workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.

Burning Bright

The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ and ‘Falling Angels’. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier’s new novel ‘Burning Bright‘ sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake’s most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier’s bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Remarkable Creatures

A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s enthralling new novel From the moment she’s struck by lightening as a baby, it is clear that Mary Anning is marked for greatness. On the windswept, fossil strewn beaches of the English coast, she learns that she has ‘the eye’ and finds what no one else can see. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is barred from the academic community; as a young woman with unusual interests she is suspected of sinful behavior. Nature is a threat, throwing bitter, cold storms and landslips at her. And when she falls in love, it is with an impossible man. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy. Ultimately, in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally. Remarkable Creatures is a stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and social prejudice to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, is it a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.

Contemporary World Writers Edition 2.

Important living writers of fiction, drama and poetry who write in languages other than English and have been subsequently translated are included in the first update since 1984 of this important volume. A 20 member advisory board of academic literary specialists helped to select the 358 entries in Contemporary World Writers, which includes both well established writers and international newcomers. Each entry in Contemporary World Writers begins with a who’s who style biography; then contains a complete bibliography, citing any English language translations of the works; a list of critical studies; and a signed, critical essay 800 1,000 words on the writer’s work. Of the writers covered, 102 are Western European, while other world regions are proportionately represented. Look for profiles on: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marguerite Duras Shusako Endo Vaclav Havel Irina Ratushinskaia Claribel Alegria Umberto Eco And many others

Encyclopedia of the Essay

The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre, reflecting the explosion of academic interest in this field. Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler , Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor Adorno, Nouvelle Revue Fran?aise, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and across the ocean to Emerson and Thoreau, E.B. White, The New Yorker and Harper’s , James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, while also looking back to classical and medieval precursors. Over 400 writers from around the world are included, along with geographical surveys providing historical frameworks, entries on kinds of essays, and entries on important single essays. Entries on closely related genres such as letters, journals, treatises, sermons, and reviews expand and explore the fluid boundaries of the essay.

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