THE BLACK TULIP: Alexandre Dumas: Fiction: Oxford University Press: 236 pagesA tulip fancier in 17th Century Holland, seeking to grow the black tulip is unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death having associated with an enemy of the State. When his live is spared, he finds new hope in the love of the jailers’ daughter Rosa who helps him fulfill his dream and plants the black tulip that he has cultivated.
It took a while for me to get into the story, but in the end I too wanted to know the fate of the Black Tulip. A short read as classics go, but I would not recommend it to a reluctant classic reader.
KK
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