The Black Tulip

By: Alexandre Dumas

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Paperback | 10 July 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Cornelius van 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 a 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's last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesmen in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland.

This new translation follows the unabridged edition of 1865 and includes a chronology and list of further reading. In his introduction, Robin Buss discusses Dumas's use of elements from the history of the Dutch Republic, tulipomania and the paintings of the period, and places the novel in the context of Dumas's life and career.

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas (1824-95) was a pioneer of the Romantic theatre in France, for which he wrote a series of colourful historical dramas, although it is as a novelist that he is best known today. His works include The Three Musketeers (1844-5), La Reine Margot (1845).

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Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxii
Select Bibliography	p. xxiv
A Chronology of Alexandre Dumas	p. xxvi
a Grateful People	p. 3
the Two Brothers	p. 13
the Pupil of John De Witte	p. 22
Popular Justice	p. 32
the Tulip-Fancier and His Neighbour	p. 42
the Hatred of a Tulip-Fancier	p. 50
the Happy Man Makes Acquaintance with Misfortune	p. 57
an Invasion	p. 68
the Family Cell	p. 75
the Jailer's Daughter	p. 80
Cornelius Van Baerle's Will	p. 85
the Execution	p. 97
What Was Going on All This Time in the Mind of One of the Spectators	p. 101
the Pigeons of Dort	p. 106
the Little Grated Window	p. 111
Master and Pupil	p. 118
the First Sucker	p. 125
Rosa's Lover	p. 133
the Maid and the Flower	p. 140
the Events Which Took Place During Those Eight Days	p. 146
the Second Sucker	p. 155
Joy	p. 163
the Rival	p. 169
	p. 176
the President Van Herysen	p. 181
A Member of the Horticultural Society	p. 188
the Third Sucker	p. 197
	p. 205
	p. 212
	p. 219
Haarlem	p. 223
	p. 232
Explanatory Notes	p. 237
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