The black tulip
(2014)
Fiction
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781910343852 (electronic bk.) MWT11620957, 1910343854 (electronic bk.) 11620957
LANGUAGE
English
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Reading by John Bolen of the 1850 book
The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a huge prize to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer
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