About this title: With her fine eye for historical detail, Chevalier writes a romantic, sweeping, and thoroughly engaging story about William Blake's London.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 04/2007
ISBN-13:9780525949787ISBN:052594978X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 311 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 04/2007
ISBN-13:9780525949787ISBN:052594978X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 311 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780525949787ISBN:052594978X
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Excellent copy! Clean and crisp inside and out. Dust jacket has only faint wear. Light pucker to dust jacket on lower front. Otherwise, looks nearly new. Orders ship same or next business day. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780452289079ISBN:0452289076
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. FINE CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK-SHIPS QUICKLY. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 327 p. Audience: General/trade. FINE CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK-SHIPS QUICKLY. F-Chevalier, Tracy, Plume Books soft cover, 2008. Biographical fiction; Blake, William; Fiction; Historical; London (England) Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780452289079ISBN:0452289076
Description: Good. 29-X: Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780525949787ISBN:052594978X
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
"you know how you need a book to read because you're going on a trip so you just Find One? i pulled this off the shelf at the library on the basis of having read Girl w/a Pearl Earring many years ago. this novel centers on a man, not a work of art; William Blake, the English poet, printer, and engraver. i have always liked his crazy mystic poetry, and the lines "tyger, tyger burning bright...doth frame thy fearful symmetry" have stuck in my head since reading it in that 12th grade purple BritLit textbook. Chevalier's story revolves around a few kids living next door to the Blakes & their interaction with him and his wife; the creation of his Songs of Experience is the time frame. while a fast read (finished the whole thing on a ride to and from Heathrow to Central London on the Tube) that gives a glimpse of late 18th-century London, the story is not enough about Blake & his work, and too much about the kids, of which only one character is really fully developed."
"There are not many authors in my book that become failures. But when it happens, my breath whooshes out of me, and I find myself becoming depressed for them! For example, I waited a very long time for another novel by Gaiman to come out. I just loved his sarcasm and wit, it was an exact match for my own and I just coudn't get enough of Tim Burton's long-lost cousin (inside joke). But when his latest novel, The Graveyard Book, came out, I was immensely disappointed. His usual charm had dissapated...a lot. And I was upset by it, what could effect this monster of our time so that there were even older and more experienced readers that felt the same way as I.
It is the same for Chevalier's latest in the U.S. Burning Bright burned me out all right, it left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and I struggled to get past even page 143. I have hope that her new novel will bring me back into the artful world of past times that she had been able to paint for us before. My fingers are still crossed."
I adored 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', but this - oh, this is horrid. I bought it from Waterstones with my head held high, my expectations perhaps a little too high. I enjoyed the little booklet on William Blake; it made me think, This must mean the novel will be packed full of information.
O woe. The style is childish, and the characters unlikeable and cardboard. And the worst of it is, it felt as if you were writing for children, and yet the subject-matter was so that you could not have been. I felt patronised, and that is the worst of it, after GWAPE had made me feel adult to read. 'Burning Bright' is just another tired historical fiction. Blake has no character. It was always going to be risky, taking such an influencial figure and reinventing him for your fiction. And here it failed. It would be forgivable, had my expectations not been so high."
"I like Tracy Chevalier's style of writing. I have read a number of her books and enjoyed each one. Burning Bright was another good read. The story of 2 families in London, England during the Georgian period, 1792. One family is from the country and the other is city born and bred. During the story, Ms. Chevalier, gives us a glimpse of the lifestyle during this period in history. In this book, the famous character that is brought into the story is William Blake and his poetry "Songs of Innocence." The theme of the story itself is related to the loss of innocence and the way in which the characters deal with this issue. If you like Tracy Chevalier's style, you will like this novel. If you have never read Chevalier, start with "The Girl with the Pearl Earring." I still think that was her best."
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