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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Author Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
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
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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