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Tables of Contents for The Black Tulip
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
 
Note on the Text
xxii
 
Select Bibliography
xxiv
 
A Chronology of Alexandre Dumas
xxvi
 
THE BLACK TULIP
1
236
A Grateful People
3
10
The Two Brothers
13
9
The Pupil of John de Witte
22
10
Popular Justice
32
10
The Tulip-Fancier and his Neighbour
42
8
The Hatred of a Tulip-Fancier
50
7
The Happy Man Makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
57
11
An Invasion
68
7
The Family Cell
75
4
The Jailer's Daughter
79
6
Cornelius van Baerle's Will
85
12
The Execution
97
4
What was Going on all this Time in the Mind of One of the Spectators
101
5
The Pigeons of Dort
106
5
The Little Grated Window
111
7
Master and Pupil
118
7
The First Sucker
125
8
Rosa's Lover
133
7
The Maid and the Flower
140
6
The Events which Took Place During Those Eight Days
146
9
The Second Sucker
155
8
Joy
163
6
The Rival
169
7
The Black Tulip Changes Masters
176
5
The President Van Herysen
181
7
A Member of the Horticultural Society
188
9
The Third Sucker
197
8
The Hymn of the Flowers
205
7
In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loevestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus
212
7
Wherein the Reader Begins to Guess the Kind of Execution that was Awaiting Cornelius Van Baerle
219
4
Haarlem
223
4
A Last Request
227
5
Conclusion
232
5
Explanatory Notes
237