The black tulip
by Auguste Maquet Alexandre Dumas
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About This Book
'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 m...
Chapters (34)
- THE BLACK TULIP
- Chapter 1. A Grateful People
- Chapter 2. The Two Brothers
- Chapter 3. The Pupil of John de Witt
- Chapter 4. The Murderers
- Chapter 5. The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour
- Chapter 6. The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier
- Chapter 7. The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
- Chapter 8. An Invasion
- Chapter 9. The Family Cell
- Chapter 10. The Jailer’s Daughter
- Chapter 11. Cornelius van Baerle’s Will
- Chapter 12. The Execution
- Chapter 13. What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators
- Chapter 14. The Pigeons of Dort
- Chapter 15. The Little Grated Window
- Chapter 16. Master and Pupil
- Chapter 17. The First Bulb
- Chapter 18. Rosa’s Lover
- Chapter 19. The Maid and the Flower
- Chapter 20. The Events which took place during those Eight Days
- Chapter 21. The Second Bulb
- Chapter 22. The Opening of the Flower
- Chapter 23. The Rival
- Chapter 24. The Black Tulip changes Masters
- Chapter 25. The President van Systens
- Chapter 26. A Member of the Horticultural Society
- Chapter 27. The Third Bulb
- Chapter 28. The Hymn of the Flowers
- Chapter 29. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus
- Chapter 30. Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle
- Chapter 31. Haarlem
- Chapter 32. A Last Request
- Chapter 33. Conclusion
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