The black tulip, Alexandre Dumas ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Buss
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The black tulip, Alexandre Dumas ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Buss
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The black tulip
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Alexandre Dumas ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Buss
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Cornelius van 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 a 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's last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesmen in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland
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