Alexandre Dumas (père)

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. - ;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. -

The Black Tulip

Der Graf von Monte Christo

Conscience l'innocent

Adventure Novel (illustrated)

Oeuvres de Alex. Dumas

Monte-Cristo. Le comte de Morcerf (3e partie de Monte-Cristo). Villefort (4e partie de Monte-Cristo).

La tour de Nesle. Angèle. Catherine Howard. Don Juan de Marana

Die drei Musketiere

Kean. Piquillo. Caligula. Paul Jones. L'alchimiste

Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle. Un mariage sous Louis XV. Lorenzino. Halifax. Les demoiselles de Saint-Cyr

Breit angelegter Abenteuerroman über die Religionskriege im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert und die politischem Kalkül unterworfene Heirat zwischen Heinrich von Navarra (dem späteren Heinrich IV von Frankreich) und der 19jährigen Margarete von Valois.

(Königin Margot) ; Roman ; [mit Szenenfotos aus dem gleichnamigen Film von Patrice Chéreau]

Alexandre Dumas (père)

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