The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Dumas (père), Alexandre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192837508 ISBN 13: 9780192837509

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0192837508
• ISBN 13: 9780192837509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Coward David