num_pages: 246
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.
language: English
title: The Black Tulip
titlecomplete: The Black Tulip
characters: William III of England and II of Scotland, Cornelius van Baerle, Rosa Gryphus, Isaac Boxtel, Cornelis de Witt, Johan de Witt, Gryphus
genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 19656
places: Dordrecht, The Hague, Haarlem, Netherlands
publisher: Penguin Classics