The Black Tulip (1850)

Although the deadly rivalry between two tulip-fanciers competing to win a prize for cultivating the rare flower of the title may not seem a gripping subject, this is a great little novel. The sentimentality is nicely done and well contrasted with quite a shocking and bloody opening to the novel. I had never heard of this eponymous flower, but it does really exist, it seems. Quite a little gem. ( )

Interessante noir di Dumas, magari qua e là un po' ingenuo ma popolato di intrighi politici e anime nere, invidie e crudeltà con l'immancabile lieto fine. Divertente, ma intanto ci si accultura un po' su momenti della storia del tutto misconosciuti. ( )

There’s nothing better than a good audiobook. There’s also nothing worse than a bad one.

This is not a review of Dumas’s book per se, as I only listened to about a chapter of it, although what I heard aroused my curiosity; I will have to procure a hard copy at some point. Rather, this is a warning for all potential listeners to skip the Tantor audiobook as read by John Bolen. I checked it out from the library the other day and went twenty minutes before giving up on it. Bolen is an American but affects a British accent for the narration and is unable to maintain it consistently. He also tends to place an undue stress on the last syllable of each word and the last word of each sentence. Throw in some cartoonish French and Dutch accents for the dialogue, and you have a real headache on your hands.

Cornelius and Isaac tried to grow the first black tulip because they could get much money. Cornelius were very rich, so Isaac always felt envy. Isaac watched him, he tried to steal his bulb.
One day, Cornelius was put in prison by his enemies, and he was gradually going to die... but he was help by Rosa, he likes Rosa.
Thanks to her, he won!
I recommend to read this book!, and want to read the final story.
This book is very excited for me, I felt like reading more.
I think Prince william is a parson of key point. ( )

This story is about a man who tried to grow a black tulip. Cornelius was a rich young man who passed his time growing tulips,most of all he wanted to grow a black tulip because there was a big ptize offered for the first man who could grow it.Meanwhile,his enemy,Isaac,he also was a tulip-grower,and he was afraid that this rich man would get the prize before him,so he looked over the garden wall and watched everything that Cornelius did.He even bought a telescape so that he might look into the window of Cornlius' house and see him working with seeds and blubs.After that,he went to the offices of government and tole stories against Cornelius,so Cornelius was sent to prison.But fortunatelly,Rosa,the daughter of the prison-keeper fell in love with Cornelius and she helped Cornlius to go on growing his thlip.Finally,Rosa was able to bring a new black thlip to show to Cornelius,but soon afterwards,Rosa and Cornlius found that someone had stolen the black tulip!It was obvious that Isaac did it.
Now what they would do?Can they take the black tulip back?I shall not tell you the end of this story.
This story is fast paced.read it is a better choice. ( )