The black tulip / Alexandre Dumas ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Coward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.

Contributor:

Coward, David.

Series:

World's classics.

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

The World's classics

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Tulipe noire. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672--Fiction.

Witt, Johan de.

Tulip Mania, 1634-1637--Fiction.

Tulip Mania, 1634-1637.

Netherlands--History--1648-1714--Fiction.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 atimeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Alexandre Dumas; THE BLACK TULIP; Explanatory Notes

Notes:

Translation of: La tulipe noire.

Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv).

ISBN:

1-283-22287-6

9786613222879

0-19-161071-2

OCLC:

742333412