| The Black Tulip: The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas (listo) Contributor(s): Dumas, Alexandre (Author) |
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ISBN: 1978019351 ISBN-13: 9781978019355 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.91 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |