Il tulipano nero by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
"Il tulipano nero" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a novel written in 1850. Set in 17th-century Netherlands during the famous tulip mania, the story follows Cornelius Van Baerle, a wealthy physician obsessed with cultivating the impossible: a black tulip worth a fortune. When a jealous neighbor conspires against him, Cornelius finds himself imprisoned and accused of political treason. Behind bars, he meets Rosa, the jailer's beautiful daughter, who becomes his
unexpected ally in a tale of love, ambition, and horticultural intrigue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 |
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| Author | Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888 |
| Translator | Chiarini, Giovanni |
| Uniform Title | La tulipe noire. Italian |
| Title | Il tulipano nero |
| Original Publication | Italy: Batelli,1851. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_tulipano_nero |
| Credits | Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 52.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 68090 |
| Release Date | May 15, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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