Girl with a Pearl Earring vs Le journal d'une femme de chambre: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier · 1999 ★★★★☆ 3.9 252 pages · ≈ 4 h 40 m · Moderate

This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and…

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Cover of Le journal d'une femme de chambre Le journal d'une femme de chambre Luis Buñuel · 1900 ★★★★☆ 3.6 258 pages · ≈ 4 h 47 m · Challenging
“Today, 14 September, at three o'clock in the afternoon of a mild, grey, rainy day, I have started in a new place, the twelfth in two years.”

Mon cher ami, en tete de ces pages, j'ai voulu, pour deux raisons tres fortes et tres precises, inscrire votre nom. D'abord, pour que vous sachiez combien votre nom m'est cher. Ensuite, -je le dis avec un tranquille…

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Scores by source

Girl with a Pearl EarringLe journal d'une femme de chambre
Goodreads 3.9 (794974) 3.6 (2095)
Hardcover 3.7 (240) —
Google Books 3.5 (11) —
Apple Books 4.5 (649) —

Reception

Girl with a Pearl EarringLe journal d'une femme de chambre
Ratings 794974 2095
Editions 47 98
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 448483 12
Reading it now 4863 —
Written reviews 14753 11
Wikipedia attention 9906 51
Pages 252 258

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