The Black Tulip
'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...
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'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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- Pages:246 pages
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0140448926
- ISBN13:9780140448924
- kindle Asin:B002RI9H52