The Black Tulip: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Black Tulip, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan. The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt brothers and then follows the story of Cornelius van Baerle, godson of Cornelius de Wit. Cornelius Van Baerle has joined the race to breed a truly black tulip – and to win the prize of 100,000 guilders, as well as fame and honour. As he nears his goal he is jailed and then of course rescued – by the beautiful Rosa, daughter of the jailer.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Black Tulip
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 7:34:20

Catalogue topics

• French literature
• adventure
• Cornelius van Baerle
• tulip
• Netherlands

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - A Grateful People — 20:28
2. 02 - The Two Brothers — 16:49
3. 03 - The Pupil of John de Witt — 17:27
4. 04 - The Murderers — 19:05
5. 05 - The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour — 18:24
6. 06 - The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier — 15:05
7. 07 - The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune — 20:46
8. 08 - An Invasion — 14:15
9. 09 - The Family Cell — 9:20
10. 10 - The Jailer's Daughter — 8:39
11. 11 - Cornelius van Baerle's Will — 23:33
12. 12 - The Execution — 6:53
13. 13 - What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators — 8:36
14. 14 - The Pigeons of Dort — 9:23
15. 15 - The Little Grated Window — 12:37
16. 16 - Master and Pupil — 12:49
17. 17 - The First Bulb — 15:42
18. 18 - Rosa's Lover — 11:44
19. 19 - The Maid and the Flower — 13:50
20. 20 - The Events which took place during those Eight Days — 16:46
21. 21 - The Second Bulb — 14:50
22. 22 - The Opening of the Flower — 11:53
23. 23 - The Rival — 12:48
24. 24 - The Black Tulip Changes Masters — 9:04

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