The Black Tulip
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The Black Tulip

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The Black Tulip

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A prize of 100, 000 guilders awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a bitter competition in 17th-century Holland. Cornelius von Baerle, a gifted and passionate florist, has dedicated himself to cultivating the elusive flower. But a ruthless rival, capitalizing on accusations that led to the assassination of Cornelius's godfather, falsely accuses the young horticulturist of treason. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Cornelius conspires with his jailer's daughter to grow the black tulip in secret.
Alexandre Dumas sets his captivating tale in the 1670s, a generation after Holland was gripped by the economic madness of Tulip mania and shortly after the mob lynching of a pair of Dutch statesmen. His fictional treatment of these historic events forms a timeless political allegory in which the rare flower represents the triumph of justice, tolerance, and true love over greed, jealousy, and obsession.

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Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2017
ISBN
9780486821320
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. I. A grateful people
  6. II. The two brothers
  7. III. The pupil of John de Witt
  8. IV. The murderers
  9. V. The amateur tulip-grower and his neighbour
  10. VI. A tulip-fancier’s hatred
  11. VII. The happy man becomes acquainted with misfortune
  12. VIII. An incursion
  13. IX. The family cell
  14. X. The jailer’s daughter
  15. XI. The will of Cornelius van Baerle
  16. XII. The execution
  17. XIII. The thoughts of one of the spectators during the last scene
  18. XIV. The pigeons of Dort
  19. XV. The wicket in the cell door
  20. XVI. Master and scholar
  21. XVII. The first bulb
  22. XVIII. Rosa’s lover
  23. XIX. A woman and a flower
  24. XX. What had happened during the eight days
  25. XXI. The second bulb
  26. XXII. The opening of the flower
  27. XXIII. The jealous man
  28. XXIV. In which the black tulip changes its master
  29. XXV. President Van Systens
  30. XXVI. A member of the Horticultural Society
  31. XXVII. The third bulb
  32. XXVIII. The song of the flowers
  33. XXIX. In which Van Baerle, before quitting Loevestein, settles his accounts with Gryphus
  34. XXX. In which one begins to suspect what kind of punishment was reserved for Cornelius van Baerle
  35. XXXI. Haarlem
  36. XXXII. A last prayer
  37. Conclusion