The Black Tulip

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The Black Tulip / Alexandre Dumas ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Coward. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - XXX, 258 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

Autor

Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870). Autor Coward, David. Redakcja

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Książki Proza

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura francuska

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Powieść psychologiczna

Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In "The Black Tulip", 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 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 17th century which brought wealth to some and ruin to many.

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Tytuł oryginału: La Tulipe Noire

Uwaga ogólna

Na okładce: Cover illustration: detail from Smedestraat with a View of the Groote Market and St.Bavo's Church, Haarlem, 1660-70, by Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde.

Tytuł oryginału: La Tulipe Noire.

Uwaga dotycząca bibliografii

Includes bibliographical references na stronach XXIV-XXV.