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'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 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.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byGail Timmerman Vaughan
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 26, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Grateful People
18Rosa's Lover
2The Two Brothers
19The Maid and the Flower
3The Pupil of John de Witt
20The Events which took place during those Eight Days
4The Murderers
21The Second Bulb
5The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour
22The Opening of the Flower
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6The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier
23The Rival
7The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
24The Black Tulip changes Masters
8An Invasion
25The President van Systens
9The Family Cell
26A Member of the Horticultural Society
10The Jailer's Daughter
27The Third Bulb
11The Execution
28The Hymn of the Flowers
12Cornelius van Baerle's Will
29In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus
13What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators
30Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle
14The Pigeons of Dort
31Haarlem
15The Little Grated Window
32A Last Request
16Master and Pupil
33Conclusion
17The First Bulb
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