The Black Tulip
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dumas, Alexandre / Coward, David / Zemmler, Franz, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, A deceptively simple story and the shortest of Dumas's most famous novels, The Black Tulip () weaves historical events surrounding a brutal murder into a tale of romantic love. Set in Holland in , this timeless political allegory draws on the violence and crimes of history, making a case against tyranny and creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.