Download or read book The Princess and the Peacocks Or, The Story of the Room written by Linda Merrill and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter, James McNeill Whistler, tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectacular Peacock Room.