La tulipe noire
By: par Alexandre Dumas, ed. by C. Fontaine ...
Contributors: Fontaine, C. 1855-1923, ed.
Edition: New ed., with exercises, notes, and vocabulary.
Series: Heath's modern language series
Publisher: D. C. Heath & Co.
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Boston; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
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.