: Alexandre Dumas
: The Black Tulip
: Jovian Press
: 9781537807737
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: CHF 0.90
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 295
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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.

Chapter 2. The Two Brothers


AS THE FAIR ROSA, with foreboding doubt, had foretold, so it happened. Whilst John de Witt was climbing the narrow winding stairs