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| Original Title: | Tulip Fever |
| ISBN: | 0385334923 (ISBN13: 9780385334921) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Deborah Moggach
Paperback | Pages: 281 pages Rating: 3.5 | 9775 Users | 1012 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tulip Fever |
| Author | : | Deborah Moggach |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 281 pages |
| Published | : | April 10th 2001 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Art |
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A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy.
Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist.
As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception--and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels--a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.
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Ratings: 3.5 From 9775 Users | 1012 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Tulip Fever
This is one of my favorite reads, I read it a few times now. Set in the 1600's this story revolves around the Tulip mania that went on(something I never knew about) during that time. An added bonus for me was that Deborah Moggach wrote the screenplay for Pride and Prejudice(the Keira Knightley version which is another favorite).I read Tulip Fever in almost one sitting on the flight to Dubai from Amsterdam, where I now live. It was recommended to me by my favourite fellow reader - my mother - because of the setting of Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century, its focus on the fast-growing trend of portrait painting and the rise and fall of Tulipmania on the stock market, something I knew little about.I found the historical references, descriptions, facts and details fascinating and I wildly appreciate all
Everything he sees speaks tulip to him. Comely women are tulips; their skirts are petals, swinging around the pollen-dusted stigmas of their legs. Amsterdam in the 1630s was considered one of the richest cities in the world. Trade had been very good for the Dutch. Citizens were becoming very civilized with a growing interest in music and a need for art hanging in their homes. The painters of the city were kept busy with commissions as wealthy people not only wanted fine paintings on their
This book was voluptuous historical fiction without anyone's bodice actually getting ripped off. (There's sex and love in the book -- just no actual bodice-ripping or silly over-the-top romance.)Moggach paints a convincing and resonant portrait of a world poised between religion and secularism, tradition and trade, city and globe. Her appreciation for Rembrandt, Vermeer, and other painters of their ilk infuses her physical descriptions as well as her verbal renderings of visual art. Like the
"Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter ScottDeborah Moggach used the life of a real painter from Holland in the 1600's to tell a story of passions built on deceit. The deceit begins with a mistaken identity, causes collusion between a servant woman and her mistress, and uses the burgeoning tulip markets to build worth that only exists on paper. As the plot becomes more and more complicated the web of deceit winds tighter. I flew through the last few
This book is not very good at all. I plan on leaving it in Singapore to increase my distance from it.
Didn't really grab me, dragged at some points.
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