The Black Tulip

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.

ISBN 0199540462   Volumes 000 ISBN13 9780199540464 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 199 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192837509 Publication date 17 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 196 Translator Franz Demmler   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress PQ2229   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 843.7   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9781615746521 Pages 288

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