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The Black Tulip [Audiobook] (MP3 CD)

by Alexandre Dumas (Author), John Bolen (Narrator)
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  • MP3 CD
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc; Unabridged edition (1 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400150086
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400150083
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,842,005 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dumas on a smaller scale, 1 Feb 2004
This review is from: The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
While most of Dumas works travel around a variety of places this book spends most of its time in Holland, a very different place to the France of his other works. The charm this book has for me is that it is typical Dumas in the style of writing and in the detail with which he describes scenes, but it is on a smaller scale then most of his works enabling him to spend a little more time on some of the details. It does share certain plot elements with the Count of Monte Cristo but by centering the story around an obsession with tullips it lends an eccentricity to the story which makes it an easy and pleasant read. I would recommend this to any Dumas fans and indeed to anyone who reads widely.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dumas is indeed the master story teller!, 9 April 2007
By Misfit (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
Who would have thought that a book, with a simple plot about two rivals trying racing to be the first to grow a black tulip, could be so unputdownable? There are no lords and ladies, no swashbuckling heros, no evil cardinals or Miladys -- nothing but a darn good yarn, and a very sweet love story.

Dumas is just brilliant (as always) and his dialogue (as always) is among the finest I've ever come across. A very quick, albeit enjoyable, read. Highly recommended.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping read, 28 Jun 2008
This review is from: The Black Tulip (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
This is a very good translation of the full story with excellent notes to explain the more obscure references - or the references to the classics if these too are unfamiliar. The book is surprisingly fast and gripping. The characters are fully formed with insight into their motivations and actions revealed at just the right time. A beautifully told story - with many memorable phrases. A must for your bookshelf to read again and again.
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