The Black Tulip



1. A Grateful People

2. The Two Brothers

3. The Pupil of John de Witt

4. The Murderers

5. The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour

6. The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier

7. The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune

8. An Invasion

9. The Family Cell

10. The Jailer's Daughter

11. Cornelius van Baerle's Will

12. The Execution

13. What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators

14. The Pigeons of Dort

15. The Little Grated Window

16. Master and Pupil

17. The First Bulb

18. Rosa's Lover

19. The Maid and the Flower

20. The Events which took place during those Eight Days

21. The Second Bulb

22. The Opening of the Flower

23. The Rival

24. The Black Tulip changes Masters

25. The President van Systens

26. A Member of the Horticultural Society

27. The Third Bulb

28. The Hymn of the Flowers

29. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus

30. Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle

31. Haarlem

32. A Last Request

33. Conclusion

Return to the Alexandre Dumas library.