The Black Tulip Contributor(s): Dumas, Alexandre (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535362456 ISBN-13: 9781535362450 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Historical Events - Literary Collections - Drama |
Dewey: 843.7 |
Lexile Measure: 1160 |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.68 lbs) 228 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |