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The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas, translated by P. F. Collier and Son

Novelsabout 8 h 15 min of listening

An unjustly imprisoned man longs after both his love and his tulips.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. I: A Grateful People
  3. II: The Two Brothers
  4. III: The Pupil of John de Witt
  5. IV: The Murderers
  6. V: The Tulip-Fancier and His Neighbour
  7. VI: The Hatred of a Tulip-Fancier
  8. VII: The Happy Man Makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
  9. VIII: An Invasion
  10. IX: The Family Cell
  11. X: The Jailer’s Daughter
  12. XI: Cornelius van Baerle’s Will
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  1. XII: The Execution
  2. XIII: What Was Going on All This Time in the Mind of One of the Spectators
  3. XIV: The Pigeons of Dort
  4. XV: The Little Grated Window
  5. XVI: Master and Pupil
  6. XVII: The First Bulb
  7. XVIII: Rosa’s Lover
  8. XIX: The Maid and the Flower
  9. XX: The Events Which Took Place During Those Eight Days
  10. XXI: The Second Bulb
  11. XXII: The Opening of the Flower
  12. XXIII: The Rival
  13. XXIV: The Black Tulip Changes Masters
  14. XXV: The President Van Systens
  15. XXVI: A Member of the Horticultural Society
  16. XXVII: The Third Bulb
  17. XXVIII: The Hymn of the Flowers
  18. XXIX: In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus
  19. XXX: Wherein the Reader Begins to Guess the Kind of Execution That Was Awaiting Van Baerle
  20. XXXI: Haarlem
  21. XXXII: A Last Request
  22. XXXIII: Conclusion
  23. Colophon
  24. Uncopyright

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