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Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The novel - a deceptively simple story - is set in Holland in 1672, and weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a timeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra. This new edition reprints the first, classic English translation. David Coward sets the novel in the context of its author's life, the turbulent history of the Dutch Republic, and the amazing `tulipmania' of the seventeenth century which brought wealth to some and ruin to many.
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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 Buitenhof,* 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 Witte,* the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland, was confined. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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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 Buitenhof,* 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 Witte,* the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland, was confined. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Impossible to write like that anymore.
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I loved this book. It has all the elements of a story that keeps you reading. I cannot even explain why I liked it. Even though some of the incidences were horrific in nature, they seemed plausible and made me want to know more. The love of a beautiful flower could keep someone going and create a relationship. Also, jealousy is depicted in all its ugliness. I found it well written and delightful to read.
It is impossible to write like this nowadays since people do not speak that way and women do not swoon as often. Still that is my favorite kind of book to indulge in my fantasies. I just loved it.
It is impossible to write like this nowadays since people do not speak that way and women do not swoon as often. Still that is my favorite kind of book to indulge in my fantasies. I just loved it.
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