Description: These CDs will play in any CD player at home or in your car. The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) Read By Gail Timmerman Vaughan Total run Time 7 Hours 31 minutes in 7 Audio CDs The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt brothers and then follows the story of Cornelius van Baerle, godson of Cornelius de Wit. Cornelius Van Baerle has joined the race to breed a truly black tulip – and to win the prize of 100,000 guilders, as well as fame and honor. As he nears his goal he is jailed and then of course rescued – by the beautiful Rosa, daughter of the jailer. A Grateful People The Two Brothers The Pupil of John de Witt The Murderers The Tulipfancier and his Neighbour The Hatred of a Tulipfancier The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune An Invasion The Family Cell The Jailer's Daughter Cornelius van Baerle's Will The Execution What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators The Pigeons of Dort The Little Grated Window Master and Pupil The First Bulb Rosa's Lover The Maid and the Flower The Events which took place during those Eight Days The Second Bulb The Opening of the Flower The Rival The Black Tulip Changes Masters The President van Systens A Member of the Horticultural Society The Third Bulb The Hymn of the Flowers In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle Haarlem A Last Request Conclusion This item will be shipped secured in a bubble mailer to be shipped USPS Mail.Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated)Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public domain books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Unabridged
Format: Audio CD
Topic: Tulipmania
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Case Type: Paper Sleeve, No Case Included
Language: English
Book Title: The Black Tulip
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Narrative Type: Fiction
Genre: Action, Adventure
Type: Audiobook