The Black Tulip
of Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Annotations)
Description
'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in deadly political intrigue and is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival. Condemned to life imprisonment, his only comfort is Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, and together they concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 246 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date April 24th 2003
- First Publication 10/30/50
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140448924
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Netherlands', 'Dordrecht (Netherlands)', 'The Hague (Netherlands)', 'Haarlem (Netherlands)']
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