Black Tulip.
Title:
Black Tulip.
Author:
Dumas, Alexandre.
ISBN:
9780191610714
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (422 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Alexandre Dumas -- The Black Tulip -- 1 A Grateful People -- 2 The Two Brothers -- 3 The Pupil of John de Witte -- 4 Popular Justice -- 5 The Tulip-Fancier and his Neighbour -- 6 The Hatred of a Tulip-Fancier -- 7 The Happy Man Makes Acquaintance with Misfortune -- 8 An Invasion -- 9 The Family Cell -- 10 The Jailer's Daughter -- 11 Cornelius van Baerle's Will -- 12 The Execution -- 13 What was Going on all this Time in the Mind of One of the Spectators -- 14 The Pigeons of Dort -- 15 The Little Grated Window -- 16 Master and Pupil -- 17 The First Sucker -- 18 Rosa's Lover -- 19 The Maid and the Flower -- 20 The Events which Took Place During Those Eight Days -- 21 The Second Sucker -- 22 Joy -- 23 The Rival -- 24 The Black Tulip Changes Masters -- 25 The President Van Herysen -- 26 A Member of the Horticultural Society -- 27 The Third Sucker -- 28 The Hymn of the Flowers -- 29 In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loevestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus -- 30 Wherein the Reader Begins to Guess the Kind of Execution that was Awaiting Cornelius Van Baerle -- 31 Haarlem -- 32 A Last Request -- 33 Conclusion -- Explanatory Notes.
Abstract:
Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The novel - a deceptively simple story - is set in Holland in 1672, and weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also atimeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.This new edition reprints the first, classic English translation. David Coward sets the novel in the context of its author's life, the turbulent history of the Dutch Republic, and the amazing `tulipmania' of the seventeenth century which brought wealth to some and ruin to many. - ;Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The novel - a deceptively simple story - is set in Holland in 1672, and weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also atimeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.This new edition reprints the first, classic English translation. David Coward sets the novel in the context of its author's life, the turbulent history of the Dutch Republic, and the amazing `tulipmania'
of the seventeenth century which brought wealth to some and ruin to many. -.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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