Black Tulip. Dumas A.

Black Tulip is one of the most unusual novels of the Great Dumas. The events of the novel do not take place in the native to the writer of France, but in the Netherlands of the era of the legendary "tulip fever" of the 17th century. Huge states come true on tulips - and the same tulips ruin the richest people of the country. Everyone sells tulips: aristocrats and commoners, merchants and politicians. For tulips, honor, conscience and even female love are sold. But once, Cornelius Van Berle, the Cornelius Van Berle, manages to find a way to grow a flower of the rare color and incredible beauty. This treasure can forever enrich him - or cost him life...