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Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines
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Samantha Hahn
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Chronicle Books LLC 2013
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A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature's most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan...each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn's evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written.

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Street Date:
09/17/2013
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ISBN:
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Samantha Hahn. (2013). Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines. Chronicle Books LLC.

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Samantha Hahn. 2013. Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines. Chronicle Books LLC.

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Samantha Hahn, Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines. Chronicle Books LLC, 2013.

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Samantha Hahn. Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines. Chronicle Books LLC, 2013. Web.

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