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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, 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 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 17th century which brought wealth to some and ruin to many.
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Fiction, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637, History, Historical Fiction, OverDrive, Witt, Johan de, in fiction, Netherlands in fiction, Tulip mania, 17th century, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 in fiction, Tulip mania, 17th century in fiction, Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672, Accessible book, French language materials, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Netherlands, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 -- Fiction, Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 -- Fiction, Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- FictionPeople
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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 Buytenhof, 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 Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
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