TY - BOOK ID - 136786582 TI - The black tulip AU - Dumas, Alexandre AU - Coward, David PY - 2000 SN - 1283222876 9786613222879 0191610712 9780191610714 0192837508 9780192837509 0192837508 9780192837509 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 KW - Witt, Johan de, KW - Netherlands KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136786582 AB - 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 atimeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and ER -