THE BLACK TULIP (Historical Adventure Novel)This carefully crafted ebook: "THE BLACK TULIP (Historical Adventure Novel)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The story begins with the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis by a wild mob of their own countrymen, considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100, 000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honor and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison… Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His most famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. |
Contents
The Murderers | |
The Tulipfancier and his Neighbour | |
The Hatred of a Tulipfancier | |
The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune | |
An Invasion | |
The Family Cell | |
Rosas Lover | |
The Maid and the Flower | |
The Events which took place during those Eight Days | |
The Second Bulb | |
The Opening of the Flower | |
The Rival | |
The Black Tulip changes Masters | |
The President van Systens | |
The Jailers Daughter | |
On the 20th of August 1672 the city of the Hague always | |
Cornelius van Baerles Will | |
The Execution | |
What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators | |
The Pigeons of Dort | |
The Little Grated Window | |
Master and Pupil | |
The First Bulb | |
A Member of the Horticultural Society | |
The Third Bulb | |
The Hymn of the Flowers | |
In which Van Baerle before leaving Loewestein settles Accounts with Gryphus | |
Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle | |
Haarlem | |
A Last Request | |
Conclusion | |
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answered asked Cornelius Baerle's brothers De Witt burghers Buytenhof carriage cell child Cornelius de Witt Cornelius van Baerle Craeke cried Cornelius cried Rosa daughter dear Rosa door dry-room executioner eyes father felt flower garden gibbet girl godfather godson grand black tulip Grand Pensionary grated window guard Haarlem Hague Halloa hands heard heart heaven Highness Horticultural Horticultural Society hour hundred thousand guilders Isaac Boxtel jailer John de Witt Loewestein look Master Gryphus Monseigneur morning muttered Mynheer Boxtel Mynheer Cornelius Mynheer Isaac Mynheer van Baerle Mynheer van Systens never night officer pale paper pigeons poor Prince Prince of Orange prisoner replied Rosa's scaffold servant smile Stadtholder staircase stolen Table of Contents tell thought three bulbs took trembling tulip-fancier tulip-growers turned round voice watched whilst William of Orange young Zounds