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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. This new translation follows the unabridged edition of 1865 and includes a chronology and list of further reading. In his introduction, Robin Buss discusses Dumas's use of elements from the history of the Dutch Republic, tulipomania and the paintings of the period, and places the novel in the context of Dumas's life and career."--Page 4 of cover.
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Fiction, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637, History, Historical Fiction, OverDrive, Witt, Johan de, in fiction, Netherlands in fiction, Tulip mania, 17th century, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 in fiction, Tulip mania, 17th century in fiction, Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672, Accessible book, French language materials, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Netherlands, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 -- Fiction, Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 -- Fiction, Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- FictionPeople
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxvii]).
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On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
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