Chernyi tiul'pan - Diuma Aleksandr

"Black Tulip" is one of the most unusual novels of the great Dumas. The events of the novel take place not in the writer's native France, but in Holland of the era of the legendary "tulip fever" of the 17th century. Tulips make a fortune - and the same tulips ruin the richest people in the country. Tulips are traded by everyone: aristocrats and commoners, merchants and politicians. For tulips are sold honor, conscience and even female love. But one day the flower grower Cornelius van Berle manages to find a way to grow a flower of rare color and incredible beauty. This treasure can enrich it forever - or cost it his life...