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Black Tulip →

I adore Alexandre Dumas, and I adore his ‘The Black Tulip.’

It is a work of beautiful imagery and imagination hidden in a deceptively simple storyline - the race to create the Black Tulip in Holland in 1672, set amongst political turmoil and true historical events. 

I discovered Dumas of course, as a child reading ‘The Three Musketeers’ but fell in love with him with ‘The Count of Monte Christo’ and began realising his true greatness with ‘The Black Tulip’ when I was 17.

I have this books in iBooks and read it on my iPhone when I am bored, of course I have an original, but I just love to have it with me at all times.

— 1 year ago
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