Black Tulips

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786569059

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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Black Tulip’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Alexandre Dumas’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Dumas includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Black Tulip’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Dumas’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191611254

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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

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 THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Lauren Willig
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749010010

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The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig Pdf

'But if modern manhood had let me down, at least the past boasted brighter specimens. To wit, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Purple Gentian and the Pink Carnation, that dashing trio of spies who kept Napoleon in a froth of rage and the feminine population of England in another sort of froth entirely.' Modern-day student Eloise Kelly has achieved a great academic coup by unmasking the elusive spy the Pink Carnation, who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Carnation's deadly nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome on-again, off-again crush Colin Selwick has the answers somewhere in his family's archives. While searching through Lady Henrietta's old letters and diaries from 1803, Eloise stumbles across an old codebook and discovers something more exciting than she ever imagined: Henrietta and her old friend Miles Dorrington were on the trail of the Black Tulip and had every intention of stopping him in his endeavour to kill the Pink Carnation. But what they didn't know was that while they were trying to find the Tulip - and trying not to fall in love in the process - the Black Tulip was watching them.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788075835994

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THE BLACK TULIP (Historical Novel) by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

The story begins with the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis by a wild mob of their own countrymen, considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100, 000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honor and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison… Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His most famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Author : Alev Lytle Croutier
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Harems
ISBN : 1584857498

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Leyla by Alev Lytle Croutier Pdf

While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCD:31175002250879

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Dumas' Romances: The regent's daughter. The black tulip by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : HARVARD:32044006908412

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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBHXC

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Romances: The Regent's daughter, and The black tulip by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : M. Hulswit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402009763

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From Cause to Causation by M. Hulswit Pdf

From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce's semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : UCR:31210000867976

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The Black Tulip, Tr. from the French by A. J. O'Connor by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Richard Wilford
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604696899

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The Plant Lover's Guide to Tulips by Richard Wilford Pdf

Tulips are one of the most popular spring-flowering bulbs. Available in a huge range of colors and in a wide array of shapes, they’re a mainstay of most spring gardens. They are the focus of festivals worldwide and are a sure sign spring is on the way. The Plant Lover’s Guide to Tulips, by Richard Wilford of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, profiles 100 commonly available species and cultivars, and features growing information, recommendations for companion plants, and tips on how to use tulips in the landscape. More than 250 color photographs bring these colorful gems to life.

Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307560827

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Tulipomania by Mike Dash Pdf

A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted—and beautiful—commodity in Europe. In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house. Historians would come to call it tulipomania. It was the first futures market in history, and like so many of the ones that would follow, it crashed spectacularly, plunging speculators and investors into economic ruin and despair. This colorful cast of characters includes Turkish sultans, Yugoslav soldiers, French botanists, and Dutch tavern keepers—all centuries apart historically and worlds apart culturally, but with one thing in common: tulipomania.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071039444

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Success with Flowers, a Floral Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Hole,Lois Hole
Publisher : Hole's
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781894728041

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Bulbs by Jim Hole,Lois Hole Pdf

Bulbs provide spectacular colour, and they're fun and easy to grow. But they are also complex organisms, and present a wide range of gardening challenges. Now, with their sixth Question & Answer book (now in full colour!), Jim Hole and Lois Hole explore the incredible world of bulbs, from their unique biology to their incredible variety. Lois' practical advice and the science behind it from Jim--a great combination that will help your bulbs flourish

Author : Erik Schmidt
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612008257

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Black Tulip by Erik Schmidt Pdf

This myth-busting military biography reveals the true story of the legendary WWII German flying ace—and how his story was manipulated during the Cold War. Over the course of 1,404 wartime missions, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Erich Hartmann claimed a staggering 352 airborne kills. His storied career contains all the dramas you would expect: frostbitten fighter sweeps over the Eastern Front, drunken forays to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, a decade of imprisonment in the wretched Soviet POW camps, and further military service during the Cold War. Then, just as Hartmann’s career was faltering, he was adopted by a network of writers and commentators deeply invested in his reputation. These men, mostly Americans, published celebratory stories about Hartmann and his elite fraternity of Luftwaffe pilots. With each dogfight tale put into print, Hartmann’s legacy became loftier and more secure, and his complicated service in support of Nazism faded away. Black Tulip digs beneath this one-dimensional account of Hartmann’s life, revealing a man who was neither a full-blown Nazi nor an impeccable knight.